The fight as an inner experience

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The struggle as an inner experience , 1922

The struggle as an inner experience is an essay by Ernst Jünger published in 1922 . In it, Jünger treats his experiences from the First World War in an abstract and reflective way. Before that, he had already narrated them in his diary In Stahlgewittern . With an extraordinarily drastic description of the cruel aspects, he evaluates the fight and thus the war positively as an extreme responsibility for an "idea" and as a character-building experience.

The essay treats in 14 chapters under headings such as "blood", "horror", "the ditch", "Landsknechte" and others different aspects of the war, as it happened especially during the First World War with its position warfare and material battles .

The style alternates between emphatically sober descriptions and, on the other hand, expressionistic means of expression. Despite the claim of a systematic investigation, the essay is interspersed with anecdotal insertions about experiences of war.

literature

expenditure
  • The struggle as an inner experience , ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1922
  • The struggle as an inner experience , in: Complete Works. Volume 7. Essays I , pp. 9-103, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-608-93477-4
Secondary literature
  • Danièle Beltran-Vidal, Héros et Héraut dans> The struggle as an inner experience < , in: Les Carnets Ernst Jünger 1, pp. 89-103, Montpellier 1996
  • Helmuth Kiesel , Ernst Jünger. Die Biographie , Siedler, Munich 2007, p. 229 ff., ISBN 3-886-80852-1
  • Werner Kohlschmidt, > The struggle as an inner experience <: Ernst Jünger's ideological starting point in critical consideration. In: Collection 7, pp. 22–31, 1952
  • Steffen Martus , Ernst Jünger. Stuttgart, Weimar 2001, p. 41 ff, ISBN 3-476-10333-1
  • Sabine Schroeder-Sherwin, Life means killing: Ernst Jünger's interpretation of war presented in 'In Stahlgewittern' and 'The fight as an inner experience' thesis, Portland State University, 1972