Approximations. Metaphysics of intoxication | Ernst Junger

Ernst Junger is an outstanding personality who has survived different eras. Thinker and officer who made a significant contribution to military theory. He began his career by escaping to Africa and participating in the Western Legion. During the First World War he received the highest awards, after the war he became a prestigious writer, comprehending the metaphysics of war in its entirety. His reflections became the basis of many ideas of the conservative revolution. Junger — dandy, aesthete, officer. During the Second World War he was in secret opposition to Hitler, his diaries are an important document of the era.

After the war, Junger became friends with Albert Hofmann and explored states of consciousness by experimenting with chemicals.. This book is dedicated to this side of Junger's life. In the course of experiments on himself, Junger explores the connection between intoxicants and various cultures.