Von der totalitären Pastoralmacht bis zum geistigen Widerstand gegen die Technik. Über die Wende Ernst Jüngers

The main aim of this study on Ernst Jünger is to highlight some elements of theWendewhich char-acterizes his work and thereby to develop further the line of research pioneered by Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault regarding the way in which ancient ‘technologies of the self’ have been rediscov-ered by the modern age. In this respect, the task of the present work is to put Jünger’sWendeinto the context of some aspects of the history of modern subjectivity reconstructed through the analysis of texts by Baudelaire, Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Sorel, Spengler, Bakunin, Nechaev and Lenin.Another purpose is to show how Jünger’s shift from totalitarian utopianism to the project of a modern form of psychagogy finds its expression in the turning away from mythopoetic writing to-ward ‘self-writing’.