ABSTRACT
Those who flaunted ideologies, said Camus, never had an ideology, and what they advocated was action-for-action's sake, which Camus called “a movement of action”, and we call here a “Community of Experience”. They were “men of action who had no faith”. The paradox of Hitler was his desire to found a stable regime on sheer movement and negativity. Camus declared, “Rauschning is right in saying in his book The Revolution of Nihilism that Hitler's revolution is pure dynamism”. The chapter will examine Camus' reflections on Jünger's Fascism. Camus and Jünger shared a fundamental understanding of the appeal of fascism as a community of experience. At the same time, Camus resisted the appeal, while Jünger embraced it. According to Camus, the empire that Ernst Jünger envisioned was both a factory and an army camp. The Jüngerian doctrine, for Camus, was the “intellectual superstructure” of the Nazi political programme. Jünger at that time was the most important writer who had not emigrated from Germany, and he hardly ever sought to oppose or protest the use the Nazis made of his name as a soldier and patriot in order to glorify their objectives. Although Jünger had never been a member of the Nazi party, he was seen by Camus, as well as by some of the Nazis, as an author who promoted Nazism spiritually.
