This paper focuses on Ernst Jünger’s essay The Peace (Der Friede). It deals with the basic tenet of the Friedensschrift, i.e. that the worst is war, the stabler is the peace that ensues from it. According to Jünger, peace is the result of the atrocities of war: therefore, the more these are painful, the more fruitful is the subsequent peace. In fact, Jünger claims that peace can only be stable after World War II, which was a war of unprecedented brutality that involved the whole planet. World War II was an ideological conflict aimed at annihilating the enemy, whereas all preceding wars (including World War I), were aimed at conquering territory, or at seizing other peoples’ or nations’ goods. Hence Jünger’s major claim: peace can arise only from an “aesthetics of terror”, i.e. an accurate phenomenology of all atrocities a war brings with it.
Estetica del terrore. Riflessioni su La Pace di Ernst Jünger
Stavru, Alessandro
2014-01-01
Abstract
This paper focuses on Ernst Jünger’s essay The Peace (Der Friede). It deals with the basic tenet of the Friedensschrift, i.e. that the worst is war, the stabler is the peace that ensues from it. According to Jünger, peace is the result of the atrocities of war: therefore, the more these are painful, the more fruitful is the subsequent peace. In fact, Jünger claims that peace can only be stable after World War II, which was a war of unprecedented brutality that involved the whole planet. World War II was an ideological conflict aimed at annihilating the enemy, whereas all preceding wars (including World War I), were aimed at conquering territory, or at seizing other peoples’ or nations’ goods. Hence Jünger’s major claim: peace can arise only from an “aesthetics of terror”, i.e. an accurate phenomenology of all atrocities a war brings with it.
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