On Pain (essay)
"On Pain" (German: Über den Schmerz) is a 1934 essay by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It is about emerging technology and its impact on human life and self-perception.[1][2][3]
The essay was published as the final entry in the 1934 collection Blätter und Steine.[4] It is one of Jünger's most famous writings and has been published as a separate volume, including in a 2008 English translation by David C. Durst from Telos Press.[5]
References
- ^ Hillard, Derek. (2014). "Ernst Jünger's Literature of Pain, or the Troubles Of Detaching Mind from Feeling". Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur. 106 (1): 54–72. JSTOR 24549906.
- ^ Koschorke, Albrecht (2000). "Der Traumatiker als Faschist. Ernst Jüngers Essay 'Über den Schmerz'". In Mülder-Bach, Inka (ed.). Modernität und Trauma. Beiträge zum Zeitenbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs (in German). Vienna: WUV. pp. 211–227. ISBN 3-85114-511-9.
- ^ Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey (2010). "P(r)ose of Pain". Cultural Politics. 6 (3): 383–388. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ Christians, Heiko (2014). "Blätter und Steine (1934)". In Schöning, Matthias (ed.). Ernst Jünger-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung (in German). Stuttgart and Weimar: J.B. Metzler. p. 122. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05350-3. ISBN 978-3-476-02479-4.
- ^ Smith, Graham M. (2010). "Book review: Ernst Jünger On Pain, trans. and introduced by Durst DC; preface by Berman RA, Telos: New York, NY, 2008; 96 pp.: 9780914386407, £14.99 (pbk)". Capital & Class. 34 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1177/03098168100340020706.