Julius Evola
This essay presents and analyzes Jünger’s main work from his early period, “Der Arbeiter,” in which the echoes of his existential experiences as a highly decorated combatant were still alive, and which essentially addresses the problem of vision and the meaning of life in the modern age, and especially in the age of technology. For Jünger, the worker is not a social class, and even less so the proletarian worker. He is a symbol.
In the 1950s, Evola tried unsuccessfully to have a translation of the book published; failing in his attempt, he decided to produce a long annotated paraphrase with updates necessary for the post-World War II period, in order to make it an autonomous and personal work. This new edition includes other of Evola’s writings on Jünger published between 1943 and 1974, documenting the evolution of his point of view, and an extensive bibliography.