The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios

The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios
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The 1938 version of Ernst JÃ¼nger's The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios must be considered a key text in the famous German writer's sprawling oeuvre. In this volume, which bears comparison to the Denkbilder of the Frankfurt School, JÃ¼nger assembles sixty-three short, often surrealistic prose piecesâ€”accounts of dreams, nature observations, biographical vignettes, and critical reflections on culture and societyâ€”providing, as he puts it, "small models of another way of seeing things." Here JÃ¼nger experiments with a new method of observation and thinking, uniting lucid and precise observation with the unconstrained receptivity of dreams. He calls this method stereoscopy, a form of perception by which our commonplace understanding is extended to include a simultaneous awareness of additional dimensions of sense or value in the object observed. But equally important to JÃ¼nger is an intuitive receptivity that comprehends matters directly at the midpoint of the matter, making laborious determinations of the periphery superfluousâ€”intuition is a master key that opens all, and not just the individual doors of a house. With these methods, JÃ¼nger attempts to penetrate to the hidden harmony of things that lies behind the dualities of surface and depth, image and essence. This superb translation offers Anglophone readers a fresh look at one of twentieth-century Germany's most extraordinary writers.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Telos Press Publishing
Manufacturer Telos Press Publishing
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780914386483
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Telos Press Publishing
Manufacturer	Telos Press Publishing
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780914386483
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios

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