Der Arbeiter

Ernst Jünger's major essay on the worker is presented here in a standalone edition. "The plan of the book," Jünger wrote in the preface to the first edition, "is to make the figure of the worker visible beyond theories, beyond party lines, beyond prejudices, as a dynamic force that has already powerfully intervened in history and that imperatively shapes the forms of a changed world." Jünger's book, which has lost none of its challenging power since its publication in 1932, seeks to capture the new figure of the technical human and outlines a mass type that, enclosed within the total system of work, heralds a new age of the world.