Oswald Spengler

Spengler, Oswald - spĕngˈglər, Ger. ôsˈvält shpĕngˈglər, 1880–1936, German historian and philosopher. His studies covered many fields, among them mathematics, science, philosophy, history, and art. His major work, The Decline of the West (2 vol., 1918–22; tr. 1926–28), brought him worldwide fame. Spengler Read More...

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The Riddle of History: The Great Speculators from Vico to Freud (Chap.IX "Spengler")
by Bruce Mazlish. 484 pgs.

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Preface

I Introduction

Ii Vico

Iii Voltaire

Iv Condorcet

V Kant

Vi Hegel

Vii Comte

Viii Marx

Ix Spengler

X Toynbee1

Xi Freud

Xii Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

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The Dynamics of World History (Chap. 6 "Oswald Spengler and the Life of Civilizations")
by Christopher Dawson, John J. Mulloy. 499 pgs.

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Part One: Toward a Sociology Of History

2 Sociology as a Science

3 Sociology and The Theory of Progress

4 Civilization and Morals

5 Progress and Decay in Ancient And Modern Civilization

6 Art and Society

7 Vitality or Standardization In Culture

8 Cultural Polarity and Religious Schism: an Analysis of The Causes of Schism

9 Prevision in Religion

10 T. S. Eliot on The Meaning of Culture

1 Religion and the Life of Civilization

2 The Warrior Peoples and the Decline Of the Archaic Civilization

3 The Origins of Classical Civilization

4 The Patriarchal Family in History

5 Stages in Mankind's Religious Experience

1 The Evolution of the Modern City

2 Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind

3 The World Crisis and The English Tradition

4 Bolshevism and the Bourgeoisie

Part Two Conceptions of World History

2 History and the Christian Revelation

3 Christianity and Contradiction In History

4 The Kingdom of God and History

1 The Problem of Metahistory

2 St. Augustine and the City of God

3 Edward Gibbon and the Fall of Rome

4 Karl Marx and the Dialectic Of History

5 H. G. Wells and the Outline Of History

6 Oswald Spengler and the Life Of Civilizations

7 Arnold Toynbee and The Study of History

8 Europe in Eclipse

Continuity and Development In Christopher Dawson's Thought

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Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis (Chap. 4 "Oswald Spengler" and Chap. 12 "Critical Examination of the Theories of Danilevsky, Spengler, and Toynbee")
by Pitirim A. Sorokin. 345 pgs.

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Part One Outline of Modern Social Philosophies

Ii Aesthetic Interpretations of History

Iii Nikolai Danilevsky

Iv Oswald Spengler

V Arnold J. Toynbee

Vi Walter Schubart

Viii F. S. C. Northrop

Ix Alfred L. Kroeber

X Albert Schweitzer

Part Two Comparative Critical Analysis of Modern Social Philosophies

Xii Critical Examination of the Theories of Danilevsky, Spengler, and Toynbee

Xiii Critical Examination of the Theories of Northrop, Kroeber, Schubart, Berdyaev, and Schweitzer

Part Three Towards A Valid Social Philosophy

Xv the Importance of Social Philosophy in an Age of Crisis

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The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought (Chap. VI "Spengler and the Predicament of the Historical Imagination")
by Erich Heller. 212 pgs.

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I: Goethe and the Idea of Scientific Truth

II: Goethe and the Avoidance of Tragedy

III: Burckhardt and Nietzsche

IV: Nietzsche and Goethe

V: Rilke and Nietzsche With a Discourse on Thought, Belief and Poetry

VI: Oswald Spengler and the Predicament Of the Historical Imagination

VII: The World of Franz Kafka

VIII: Karl Kraus: the Last Days of Mankind
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Essays on Literature and Society (pg. 125 "Oswald Spengler")
by Edwin Muir. 170 pgs.

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Robert Henryson

Royal Man: Notes on the Tragedies of George Chapman

The Politics of King Lear

Laurence Sterne

Burns and Popular Poetry

Walter Scott

Friedrich HÖlderlin

HÖlderlin's Patmos

Robert Browning

The Novels of Thomas Hardy

Franz Kafka

Oswald Spengler

The Political View of Literature

The Decline of the Novel

The Natural Man and the Political Man

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Generals and Geographers: The Twilight of Geopolitics (Chap. II "Spengler, Russia and the Future")
by Hans W. Weigert. 277 pgs.

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I: Geography and Geopolitics

II: O. Spengler, Russia and the Future

III: Haushofer, the Party and the Army

IV: Pioneers of Geopolitics

V: Sir Halford Mackinder and the Heartland

VI: Haushofer and the Heartland

VII: Geopolitical Strategy and the Pacific

VIII: America, 'the Satellite'

X: Geopolitics and Humanity

Notes

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Philosophy and the Modern World (Chap. IV "History and Destiny: Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee")
by Albert William Levi. 596 pgs.

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Part I: The Problems

I: Multiplicity and Division

II: Rationality and Irrationality

Part II: The Prophets

III: The Creativity of Man: Henri Bergson

IV: History and Destiny: Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee

V: The Inner LIfe: Sigmund Freud and His Followers

VI: Society in Distress: V. I. Lenin and Thorstein Veblen

VII: Reason in Nature: the Revolution of Einstein and Planck

VIII: Reason in Society: John Dewey

IX: The Passion for Logic: Bertrand Russell and Rudolph Carnap

X: The Drama of Choice: Karl Jaspers and Jean-Paul Sartre

XI: The Lure of the Part: G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein

XII: The VIsion of the Whole: Alfred North Whitehead

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Living Authors: A Book of Biographies (1931)
by Stanley Kunitz. 472 pgs.

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German Incertitudes, 1914-1945: The Stones and the Cathedral (Chap. 3 "Heroic and Not-so-Heroic Pessimism: Max Weber and Oswald Spengler")
by Klemens Von Klemperer. 175 pgs.

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The history of modern Germany has all too readily been seen in terms of a historical process that inevitably led to the horrors of National Socialism. As there are no certitudes in life, however, so there are none in German history. In this book, historian Klemens von Klemperer focuses on what he terms "the German incertitudes"--namely, the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon reenchantment. Exploring this tension through a critical assessment of the ideas and writings of major German thinkers, von Klemperer seeks to account for both the achievements and the failings of German thought, society, and politics as responses to the challenge of modernity in the first half of the 20th century.

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1: Introduction: Tradition and Modernity in German Thought and Society

2: The Great War: Experience and Memory

3: Heroic and Not-So-Heroic Pessimism: Max Weber and Oswald Spengler

4: The Adventurer: Ernst Jünger Reconsidered

5: The Call for Allegiance: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

6: The Lure and Limits of Gemeinschaft

7: Fragments, Abstraction and a Vision: The German Expressionists

8: Authenticity: Martin Heidegger and the Temptation of National Socialism

9: Maturity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Faith and the “world Come of Age”

10: Conclusion: The German Mind between Disenchantment and Reenchantment, and the Spectre of National Socialism

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The Prussian Spirit: A Survey of German Literature and Politics, 1914-1940 (Chap. 2 "Oswald Spengler on Prussian Socialism")
by S. D. Stirk. 238 pgs.

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Introductory

Chapter I: Introductory

Part I: Weimar and Potsdam, 1919-1933

Chapter I: Moeller Van Den Bruck on 'the Prussian Style' And 'the Third Empire'

Chapter II: Oswald Spengler on Prussian Socialism

Chapter III: The Prussianism of Wilhelm Stapel

Chapter IV: Three Prussian Officers of the First Great War

Chapter V: The Captain of Köpenick

Chapter VI: The Legend of Frederick the Great

Chapter VII: Anti-Frederick

Chapter VIII: Adolf Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg: in Praise Of Prussia

Part II: Prussia and the Third Empire 1933-1940

Chapter IX: Hindenburg and the Day of Potsdam

Chapter X: Prussia Welcomes Hitler

Chapter XII: The Prussian Spirit in Opposition

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The Great Doomsayer: Oswald Spengler Reconsidered, in The National Interest
by Neil McInnes . 12 pgs.

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