STRANGE HOMOLOGY: BUBER’S AND JÜNGER’S DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FIGHTING INDIVIDUAL

• Authors: Šajda Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A complex approach to Martin Buber’s oeuvre requires a consideration of both his dialogical and pre-dialogical writings. The latter include in some cases emphases that differ substantially from the emphases promulgated in Ich und Du. I will focus on three essays from the final stage of Buber’s pre-dialogical period which contain reflections on the fighting individual. The comparison with Ernst Jünger’s reflections on the same motif will show the intellectual proximity between the two authors and will help us understand how Buber’s thought was positioned shortly before his dialogical turn. While after this turn Buber and Jünger could be easily seen as polar opposites, this is not the case when we juxtapose their early reflections on the fighting individual in World War I. There are striking similarities which I denote as a homology, as there is no evidence of influence in either direction. The presented analysis provides an insight into Buber’s controversial pre-dialogical positions as well as into the more general processing of the World War I experience in Germanophone philosophy.

Keywords

EN

FIGHTING INDIVIDUAL; MARTIN BUBER; ERNST JÜNGER

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 533 – 547

Contributors

author

Šajda Peter

• Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. Klemensova 19, 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1567-0704

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2023.78.7.2