Summary
Ernst Junger: Heliopolis
The fact that Ernst Junger predicted the planetary rule of technology (in the book The Worker, 1932) and the unification of Europe as a community of the future ranks him among the most significant European thinkers. Heliopolis is one of Junger's most significant works, a novel that talks about the relationship between time (tradition) and the moment in which the world is today (modernity), and about the conflict between these two times. Junger advocates the opinion that the more the world develops (the age of technology), the more a man becomes a slave to his work and his ideas. This is a book about modern humanity's need to rebel so that it doesn't break away and get lost in overabundance.
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