Before the Wall of Time. World State. Type, Name, Gestalt

This book includes three essays by Ernst Jünger — «Before the Wall of Time» (1959), «World State» (1960), and «Type, Name, Gestalt» (1963), in which the author reflects in his characteristic restrained manner on the themes that concerned him: how familiar concepts — war, peace, freedom, nation — gradually lose their former meaning against the backdrop of significant historical changes; how the role of individual states inevitably changes under the influence of common global processes, as well as the concept of «gestalt» as a way to see not individual details, but the overall picture — to notice hidden patterns lurking behind the visible chaos of events…