Choose a passage from
Jünger, write it out, explain the meaning of it, and why you chose this passage.
“The photograph
stands outside of the zone of sensitivity. It has a telescopic quality; one can
tell that the event photographed is seen by an insensitive and invulnerable
eye. It records the bullet in mid-flight just as easily as it captures a man at
the moment an explosion tears him apart. This is our own peculiar way of
seeing, and photography is nothing other than an instrument of our own peculiar
nature (p. 39).”
In this passage we
see that Jünger compares our zone of sensitivity to photograph. He draws to
conclusion that we have grown insensitive to feelings and just as a photograph
records tragic events in life we also record events in life with no empathy to
it. I believe he is trying to say that we have developed to stilled, un-empathetic,
unsympathetic living machines that just go through life recording events with
no feeling attached to it.
