Authorized English Translation with linked footnotes by: Charles Francis Atkinson
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This Second Edition of Spengler’s radical first work “Der Untergang des Abendlandes” (1922) is as potent in the 21st century as it was at its completion after the first world war. This ebook contains the complete Vol I – Form and Actuality. Spengler’s scrutiny, along with his expansive use of historical examples and references, allows this work to transcend what we often consider philosophy. Indeed the target of exploration here is none other than the entire “Maxrokosmos” of world-history, mathematics, art, architecture, and thought.
Inspired by Goethe and Nietzsche, the proposals contained within The Decline of the West are as disturbing as they are convincing. Early on it can be seen that this work follows no ordinary historical paradigm. With arguments like the Pantheon as the first of the mosques, or the intimate connection of mathematical theory and religion, Spengler will take the careful reader on an exhilarating adventure through a world-history unlike any witnessed before.
Linked Table of Contents includes all chapters and sub sections. Chapters in Vol I include –
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II. THE MEANING OF NUMBERS
CHAPTER III. THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-STORY. (1) PHYSIOGNOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC
CHAPTER IV. THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-STORY. (2.) THE DESTINY-IDEA AND THE CAUSALITY-PRINCIPLE
CHAPTER V. MAKROKOSMOS. (1) THE SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-PICTURE AND THE PROBLEM OF SPACE
CHAPTER VI. MAKROKOSMOS. (2.) APOLLINIAN, FAUSTIAN, .AND MAGIAN SOUL
CHAPTER VII. MUSIC AND PLASTIC. (I) THE ARTS OF FORM
CHAPTER VIII. MUSIC AND PLASTIC. (2.) ACT .AND PORTRAIT
CHAPTER IX. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (I) ON THE FORM OF THE SOUL
CHAPTER X. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (2) BUDDHISM, STOICISM, AND SOCIALISM
CHAPTER XI. FAUSTIAN .
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