Anarch

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The term anarch can already be traced in the older literature on anarchism , for example with the anarchist author Gustav Landauer , but remained marginal at the time. It only gained greater fame through Ernst Jünger , who in his novel Eumeswil (1977), which was written at the age of 80, created the anarch as a positive figure in contrast to the negative of the anarchist.

The figure of the anarch is a further development of the figure of the forest walker that Jünger had designed in the years after the Second World War. After the bankruptcy of all politics, the forest walker should symbolize "a new concept of freedom". He does not allow himself to be prescribed the law by any power, neither propagandist nor violence; he is "determined to resist."

While Jünger, who in the years after the First World War had become famous for his enthusiastic description of the soldiery , seemed to flirt with individualistic anarchism after the Second World War , he finally turned against any anarchism in Eumeswil : “The anarchist is dependent - once from his unclear will, second from power. He follows the mighty as his shadow ... The positive counterpart of the anarchist is the anarch. ”According to interviews and letters, Jünger largely identified himself with this figure in his later years.

When conceiving the Anarch, Jünger refers expressly and exclusively to Max Stirner . According to Bernd Laska's analysis , he interprets Stirner's “ unique ” in a shortened and basically trivial way: as extreme, aristocratic individualists , so to speak as supermen in Nietzsche's sense , but serene and without his will to power .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the and the anarchists passim, z. B. on p. 339f: “It smells worst with the anarchists ... The bad smell is explained by their inherently correct maxim that everyone should live according to their taste - but their taste is disreputable. You can find types there who deliberately step in the feces and who benefit from it as a mental achievement. "
  2. ^ Ernst Jünger: Eumeswil. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1977, p. 46
  3. ↑ Bernd A. Laska: "Katechon" and "Anarch". Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger's reactions to Max Stirner . LSR-Verlag, Nürnberg 1997, pp. 59–68 ( table of contents, name register )

literature

  • Ernst Jünger : Eumeswil . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Bernd A. Laska : "Katechon" and "Anarch". Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger's reactions to Max Stirner . LSR-Verlag, Nuremberg 1997, ISBN 3-922058-63-9
  • Dietrich Murswiek : The anarch and the anarchist. In: Deutsche Studien, 17 (1979), pp. 282-294
  • Jörg-Anselm Asseyer: Lord and anarch. Ernst Jünger - From behavioral fascist to noble anarchist? In: Only the unimaginative escape into reality. Anarchistisches Ja (hr) buch I, Karin Kramer Verlag, (West) Berlin 1983, pp. 60–63
  • Federico Ferrari : L'Anarca. La libertà del singolo tra anarchia e nichilismo . Mimesis, Milan 2014 ISBN 978-88-5752-689-8