Friedrich Georg Jünger after 1945: Publicity – Networks – Reception
Friedrich Georg Jünger after 1945: Publicity – Networks – Reception
Dissertation
- worked out by Jonas Meurer
- Cohort 1 (since 2022)
Friedrich Georg Jünger after 1945: Publicity – Networks – Reception
The dissertation explores the position and positionings of the poet, novelist, essayist, technology and cultural critic Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898-1977) in the literary and cultural field after 1945. On the one hand, the aim is to carefully reconstruct the processes and practices that gave the former ‘conservative revolutionary’ (Armin Mohler) public visibility since the immediate postwar period. On the other hand, the resulting effects – how Jünger’s publicity was contextualized, negotiated, or evaluated by various actors – are analyzed.
Special attention is paid to right-wing conservative intellectual milieus and counter-publics, which represent a constitutive factor of influence for the history of Jünger’s reception. Methodologically, the project refers to theories of authorship, discourse, field and network.