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As the twenty-first century grinds on, with history returning in spades, Ernst Jünger, German warrior and philosopher, grows more relevant every day. This book, On the Marble Cliffs, I view as his third book in an unrecognized trilogy advising us how we should conduct ourselves under different types of tyranny. It fits with two other books, more famous, The Forest Passage (1951) and Eumeswil (1977), which also parse freedom and oppression, each with a different focus and tone. This book, fiction both dreamlike and phantasmagoric, is lesser known and even harder to grasp than the other two. Yet it serves the same purpose: to instruct us how an individual in society should act when threatened by, or subsumed by, tyranny. The Forest Passage is an examination of how man should live under a completed totalitarianism, notably that of postwar European Communism. Eumeswil is an examination of how man should live under a related, but different, tyranny, that of so-called liberal democracy, which promises false freedom and instead demands forced worship of idols. On the Marble …

Book Reviews Charles Fiction Political Discussion & Analysis Post-Liberalism Radical Right Authoritarianism Wars To Come February 28, 2022 On the Marble Cliffs (Ernst Jünger) written by Charles Haywood As the twenty-first century grinds on, with history returning in spades, Ernst Jünger, German warrior and philosopher, grows more relevant every day. This book, On the Marble Cliffs , I view as his third book in an unrecognized trilogy advising us how we should conduct ourselves under different types of tyranny. It fits with two other books, more famous, The Forest Passage (1951) and Eumeswil (1

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