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War Violence and male Fundamentalism: Ernst Júnger The political and literary handling given to war by Ernst Jünger. a recognised . propagator of military nationalism and a , precursor of the conservative revolution under the Weimar republic, is revelatory at once of the writer, the propagandist and the man. His experience of war violence and his identification with the virile hero should be interpreted as the resolute search for the triumphant male principle and'the sacred myth of the Nation. As autobiographical testimonies. In Stahlgewittem and Der Kampf ah inneres Erlebnis offer access to this virility programme which makes up the political core of Junger's exacerbated nationalism. The quest for absolute . intensity in the bloody exorcism of war. in the «heroic realism» of the nationalist paroxysm, in the exaltation of the Germanic essence and its divorce from the Jewish nature as well as the glorification of sacrifice and the cult of activism at the time of «total mobilisation», form a whole that makes Ernst Jiinger a protagonist of «male fundamentalism». Notwithstanding his later work. Junger's success rests mainly on this conception, which provided a masculine justification for the identity crisis of the post-war generation born of the bourgeoisie and a lasting programme of moral amnesia for German societv. including after 1945.