Friedrich Georg Jünger's major essay "The Perfection of Technology," written in 1939 and first published in 1946, is a classic of cultural criticism that anticipated the modern debate on ecology and sustainability beyond all ideologies. Jünger's book has rightly been placed alongside epochal works such as Horkheimer/Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and Günther Anders' "The Antiquity of Man." The influence of Jünger's thought on the philosophy of technology in the late Heidegger period should not be underestimated. As ecology and environmental protection became "leftist" topics in the 1970s, Jünger's book continued to resonate subtly but gradually fell out of the public eye. "The Perfection of Technology" awaits its rediscovery today, which would certainly be worthwhile. Jünger thinks outside many conclusions and.