Il lavoro e il lavoratore secondo Ernst Jünger e Simone Weil

The present article carries out a theoretical comparison between the thought of Ernst Jünger and the thought of Simone Weil, starting from the concepts of work and worker. Work takes the value of a meticulous exercise of reading and modifying the reality and its stratifications, and coincides with the position of the human being within the becoming of forms and meanings. Both thinkers maintain that the worker can reach a higher stage, i.e., the void that affirms the divine grace, according to Weil, and the anarchic space that captures the elemental, according to Jünger. Despite the similarities, there is a crucial difference between these perspectives: according to Jünger, the fulfilment consists in the dominion; according to Weil, it consists in a radical waiting.