[Juenger-list] Numen/Ingenta: Mircea Eliade and Ernst Jünger on Human Sacrifice

[Tobias Wimbauer]

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Ingenta

Fruitful Death: Mircea Eliade and Ernst Jünger on Human 
Sacrifice, 1937–1945 
Author: Cristiano Grottanelli
Source: Numen, Volume 52, Number 1, 2005, pp. 116-145(30)
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers

Abstract:
Mircea Eliade, the writer and historian of religions, and Ernst 
Jünger, the hero of the Great War, novelist, and essayist, met in 
the 1950s and co-edited twelve issues of the periodical Antaios. 
Before they met and cooperated, however, and while the German 
writer knew about Eliade from their common friend, Carl Schmitt, 
they both dealt with the subject of human sacrifice. Eliade began 
to do so in the thirties, and his interest in that theme was at least 
in part an aspect of his political activism on behalf of the Legion 
of the Archangel Michael, or the Iron Guard, the nationalistic and 
anti-Semitic movement lead by Corneliu Codreanu. Sacrificial 
ideology was a central aspect of the Legion's political theories, 
as well as of the practice of its members. After the Iron Guard 
was outlawed by its allies, and many of its members had been 
killed, and while the Romanian regime of Marshal Ion Antonescu 
was still fighting alongside the National Socialist regime in the 
Second World War, Eliade turned to other aspects of sacrificial 
ideology. In 1939 he wrote the play Iphigenia, celebrating 
Agamemnon's daughter as a willing victim whose death made 
the Greek conquest of Troy possible; and as a member of the 
regime's diplomatic service in Lisbon he published a book in 
Portuguese on Romanian virtues (1943), in which he presented 
what he called Two Myths of Romanian Spirituality, extolling his 
nation's readiness to die through the description of the sacrificial 
traditions of Master Manole and of the Ewe Lamb (Mioritza). 
Jünger's attitude to sacrifice ran along lines that were less 
traditional: possibly already while serving as a Wehrmacht 
officer, in his pamphlet Der Friede, the German writer attributed 
sacrificial status to all the victims of the Second World War, 
soldiers, workmen, and unknowing innocents, and saw their 
death as the ransom of a peace "without victory or defeat." In this 
article, the sacrificial ideologies of the two intellectuals are 
compared in order to reflect upon the complex interplay between 
traditional religious themes, more or less freely re-interpreted 
and transformed, political power, and violent conflict, in an age of 
warfare marked by fascisms and by the terrible massacre some 
refer to by the name of an ancient Greek sacrificial practice. 

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