La educación estética como superación del Nihilismo en la obra de Ernst Jünger

Abstract

The main object of our doctoral thesis consists in conceiving the work of the thinker Ernst Jünger, as an answer to the problem of nihilism, already announced by Nietzsche, considering the collection of his work not only als a diagnosis of the nihilism which affects Occident, but also als its treatment and cure. On the other hand, we have assessed and judged critically the value and viability of his philosophical program of the Gestalt metaphysics, als superseding of nihilism, analyzing the epistemologic principles that support that program.Bearing these objectives in mind, on the first Chapter we have analyzed, first of all, the reasons that justify the distrust of Jünger regarding the rationalist and positivist program to constitute and build a good, safe and reasonable society, and, secondly, we have found in Jünger s work the necessity to test new forms of knowledge and control of Nature, not just through reason, but through intuition and experience, that permit the foundation of a new political cosmopolitanism, overcoming with it the european nihilism. On the second Chapter, we have described the nature and running of this cosmopolitanism, going criticatilly through the metaphysical fundaments in which it s supported. Finally, on the third Chapter we have defined and questioned the moral theory of the resistance which Jünger proposes as the way to overcoming the nihilism and the political totalitarianisms from last century.