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Name: Ethos of posthistory in Ernst Jünger’s «Eumeswil»

Authors: Nikita V. Gladilin

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

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.

Keywords: german literature, ernst jünger, postmodernity, posthistory, ethics, utopia

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