Ethos of posthistory in Ernst Jünger’s «Eumeswil»

In the section Study of literature
Ethos of posthistory in Ernst Jünger’s «Eumeswil»
Авторы (текстом)
Nikita V. Gladilin
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
german literature, ernst jünger, postmodernity, posthistory, ethics, utopia
Abstract

The novel «Eumeswil» is a natural stage in the world outlook development of the German writer Ernst Jünger. Having devoted his works to mythology and heroic typology of modernism, at the ebb of his life he noted the decline of its «progressist» impulse and the formation of a new sociocultural paradigm. The fictional city-state Eumeswil is a posthistorical utopia, and the concept of a self-sufficient and ironical «anarch» meets the self-consciousness of a postmodern subject that is coming into being.

Bibliographic reference
Nikita V. Gladilin Ethos of posthistory in Ernst Jünger’s «Eumeswil» // Сибирский филологический журнал. 2011. № 1. Pp. 112–119.