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“At the wall of time”: the question of history and the crisis of the modern world

Published on: March 27 2020 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Philosophy, Characters, History, History of Religions

Ernst Jünger's work on cyclical time, published 60 years ago, marks the apex of what was called the "culture of the crisis", a current of thought focused on becoming aware of the drama of History and Historicism and on the image of time as an impetuous flow that overwhelms everything: intuitions that, before Jünger, were brought to the surface by Oswald Spengler, René Guénon, Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

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