ABSTRACT
In Heidegger's annotations from the 1930s, he states that Junger "sharpens, hardens and articulates" Nietzsche's metaphysical design of the world, out of his essential experiences of the First World War. Heidegger concludes that in his description of total mobilization, Junger, more than anybody else, shows our current world of the will to power. Heidegger draws two conclusions from Junger's metaphysics: Junger's Platonism and the modern character of Junger's Platonism. In Platonism, the gestalt is the ideal and transcendental form (Being) which is the measure for all beings on earth, the world of becoming. The fundamental metaphysical position of Junger's Platonism is modern because it remains trapped in the gestalt of human being as subject. "The self-assertion in the gestalt is then the only form of certainty and security, because exactly this represents the highest subjectivity in the domain of modern freedom anyway".
