This book examines the work of Ernst J-nger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger-s influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of J-nger-s philosophy and his conception of the age of technology, in which both world and man appear in terms of their functionality and efficiency. The primary objective of J-nger-s novels and essays is to make the transition from the totally mobilized world of the 20th century toward a world in which a new type of man represents the gestalt of the worker and is responsive to this new age. Blok proceeds to demonstrate J-nger-s influence on Heidegger-s analysis of the technological age in his later work, as well as Heidegger-s conceptions of will, work and gestalt at the beginning of the 1930s. At the same time, Blok evaluates Heidegger-s criticism of J-nger and provides a novel interpretation of the J-nger-Heidegger connection: that J-nger-s work in fact testifies to a transformation of our rela
