The Struggles of the Individual in a Nihilistic Age: Kierkegaardâs and JÃ¼ngerâs Critiques of Modernity

Peter Å ajda

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The chapter focuses on Kierkegaardâs and JÃ¼ngerâs respective critiques of modernity presented in The Present Age (1846) and Across the Line (1950). Both texts are examples of the genre critique of the age and are connected by the fact that JÃ¼nger develops several motifs adopted from Kierkegaard. At the center of both works is the struggle of the modern individual who is subject to various forms of reduction, leveling, and deindividualization. Kierkegaard and JÃ¼nger examine these processes and suggest ways of resisting modern nihilism, which uproots, isolates and functionalizes the individual. I present critically the main lines of their argumentation and highlight the affinities and differences of their diagnoses of modernity. I argue that JÃ¼nger demands a more active and coordinated participation of the individual in the confrontation with nihilism.

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Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures

Essays in Philosophical Anthropology

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 356, Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 356, and Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 356

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