Tag: Natura

The "Atlantic Crossing" and Ernst Jรผnger's look at Brazil

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Jรผngerian chronicles of a 1936 cruise to South America: the fatal element of the Amazonian "Wildnis" emerges from the Brazilian shops of the German philosopher, the "memory of forms" on which the entire Creation and unconditional love for life is based. oceanic element, vector of the "original song of life that is lulling itself over the times".

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Devotion: the sunset of the idols and the Waldgรคnger trail

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The godless world saw the birth of man. On the desolate battlefield the astonished winner stood up and a naive triumphant grin was printed on his face: the war was perhaps won, the hated enemies defeated, man could finally get out of his lair and march on earth and other creatures. What a joy for the peoples, but what a tragedy for the world! Today, at the "Wall of Time"And al crossroads of history, having broken the order that we have taken for granted too lightly, we are preparing to build new paradigms for the world to come.

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โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: Ernst Jรผnger's prophecies about the Age of the Titans

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125 years ago, on March 29, 1895, Ernst Jรผnger, one of the most important and original thinkers of the short century, was born in Heidelberg. Sixty years have passed since the publication of his work "At the wall of time" which, reread today, can only amaze us at the punctuality of the prophecies it contains about the world to come, the world in which we find ourselves living today: from the figure paradigmatic of the "unknown soldier" to the advent of the so-called "mass-man", passing through the phenomenon of the "disappearance of borders" and finally coming to highlight the work of destruction of the natural rhythms in which man has always been inserted, accomplished by means of the "titanism" of Science.

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Auras and inner lights

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Since the perception of a light characterizes the apparition of the divine, the luminous has always been associated with the numinous. The great dilemma that Walter Benjamin proposes is whether the visual impression is determined exclusively by the biology of the human eye or is also characterized by cultural and historical specificities. This contribution seeks to reconstruct how the experience of light in the West has changed over the centuries in intensity and suddenness and how its modes of manifestation have changed.

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