7 must-read classics books like The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

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The Forest Passage

By: Ernst Jünger

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think…

"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded in the family father, who, sons at his side, fills the doorway with an axe in hand."

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it."

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which explains all the activity around gnostics, founders of sects, and evangelists, who all, more or less successfully, step into the role of the churches. One might say that a certain definite quantity of religious faith always exists, which in previous times was legitimately satisfied by the churches. Now, freed up, it attaches itself to all and everything. This is the gullibility of modern man, which coexists with a lack of faith. He believes what he reads in the newspaper but not what is written in the stars."

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

If you liked the classics plot in The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Inferno

By: August Strindberg , Carlo Picchio

3.59

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Composto di getto in meno di due mesi, tra il maggio e il giugno 1897, "Inferno" costituisce insiem… read more

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"La oss derfor lide uten håp om en eneste varig glede i dette livet siden vi, mine brødre, allerede er i helvete."

-August Strindberg, Inferno

"Se her, mine brødre, en menneskeskjebne blant mange andre, og erkjenn at et menneskes liv kan ta seg ut som en dårlig spøk!"

-August Strindberg, Inferno

"La oss glede oss over pinslene som er like mange betalte gjeldsposter, og la oss tro at det er av barmhjertighet vi ikke får vite de opprinnelige årsakene til våre kvaler."

-August Strindberg, Inferno

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2. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • german literature
  • politics
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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3. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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4. An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture

By: Roger Scruton

3.89

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. On the Heights of Despair

By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more

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  • classics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • essays
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8. The Fourth Political Theory

By: Alexander Dugin , Александр Гельевич Дугин

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Fourth Political Theory is the first book by the famed Russian political theorist to appear in … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

9. Reflections on Violence

By: Georges Sorel , T.E. Hulme , None , None

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sorel developed an original and provocative theory on the positive, even creative, role of myth and… read more

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10. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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11. Soul

By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more

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12. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more

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13. The Crisis of the Modern World

By: René Guénon , None , None

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more

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14. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • 20th century
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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15. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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  • classics
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

16. The Decline of the West

By: Oswald Spengler , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the Westhas ranked as … read more

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17. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • philosophy
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

18. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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19. The Forest Passage

By: Ernst Jünger

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more

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"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

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20. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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21. Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy

By: Costin Alamariu

3.97

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an argument that philosophy is born with and dependent on the idea of nature; and that this… read more

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3.50

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