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1. The Decline of the West; Volume I
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2. The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World-History (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World-HistoryIN the annotations to this volume I have followed the same course as in the first namely, that of giving primary references to the Encyclopedia Britan nica as being the most considerable work of the kind that is really widely distributed in both the English-speaking fields, though occasionally special encyclopaedias or other works are referred to. Owing to the more definitely historical character of this volume, as compared with its predecessor, and particularly its stressing of a history that scarcely figures as yet in a regular education the Magian such references are necessarily more numerous. Even so, more might perhaps have been inserted with advantage. The Trans lator's notes have no pretension to be critical in themselves, though here and there an argument is pointed with an additional example, or an obvious criticism anticipated. In each domain they will no doubt be resented by an expert, but the same expert will, it is hoped, find them useful for domains not his own.
In the first volume of the English version, references to the second were necessarily given according to the pagination of the German. A comparative table of English and German page numbers has therefore been inserted. A list of corrigenda to Vol. I is also issued with this volume.
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3. The Decline of the WestTHE DECLINE OF THE WEST by Spengler, Oswald (Author) on Apr-11-2006 Paperback
4. Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
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It must be left to critics to say whether it was Destiny or Incident using these words in the authors sense that Spenglers Untergang des Abendlandes appeared in July, 1918, that is, at the very turning point of the four years World War. It was conceived, the author tells us, before 1914 and fully worked out by 1917. So far as he is concerned, then, the impulse to create it arose from a view of our civilization not as the late war left it, but (as he says expressly) as the coming war would find it. But inevitably the public impulse to read it arose in and from post-war conditions, and thus it happened that this severe and difficult philosophy of history found a market that has justified the printing of 90,000 copies. Its very title was so apposite to the moment as to predispose the higher intellectuals to regard it as a work of the moment the more so as the author was a simple Oberlehrer and unknown to the world of authoritative learning. A well-formatted version based on the Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 edition, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson.5. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
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In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than eighty years after the book was first published, have turned out to be remarkably accurate. Spengler predicted that industrialisation would lead to serious environmental problems and that countless species would become extinct. He also predicted that labour from Third World countries would increasingly outcompete Western workers by doing the same work for much lower wages, and that industrial production would therefore move to other parts of the world, such as East Asia, India, and South America. According to Spengler, technology has not only made it possible for man to harness the forces of nature; it has also alienated him from nature. Modern technology now dominates our culture instead of that which is natural and organic. After having made himself the master of nature, man has himself become technology's slave. 'The victor, crashed, is dragged to death by the team', Spengler summarises. Finally, Spengler foresaw that Western man would eventually grow weary of his increasingly artificial lifestyle and begin to hate the civilisation he himself created. There is no way out of this conundrum as the unrelenting progress of technological development cannot be halted. The current high-tech culture of the West is therefore doomed, destined to be consumed from within and destroyed. A time will come, Spengler writes, when our giant cities and skyscrapers have fallen in ruins and lie forgotten 'just like the palaces of old Memphis and Babylon'. It remains to be seen if this last, and most dire, of Spengler's prophecies will also come true. The German historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In 1904 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Halle for a dissertation on the philosophy of Heraclitus. Spengler then left the university to work as a teacher at a gymnasium school in Hamburg. After having received a small inheritance from his mother in 1911, Spengler quit his position as a teacher, moved to Munich, and started out on a new career as a writer. His breakthrough came in 1918 when the first volume of his magnum opus The Decline of the West was published. In The Decline of the West, Spengler argues that civilisations inevitably go through a series of cycles of rise and decline. They are born, bloom, and then fade away as if they were living entities. According to Spengler, Western civilisation has entered its final, declining phase and is slowly dying. The Decline of the West became a bestseller and was widely discussed in intellectual and academic circles. The Decline of the West made Spengler a household name. He became one of the leading figures of the so-called 'Conservative Revolution'-an intellectual movement in Weimar Germany that sought to rebuild the German nation based on conservative synthesis of nationalist, conservative, and socialist principles following the fall of the Hohenzollern empire, calling for a 'third way' between liberal democracy and Communism. After the Nazis' ascension to power in 1933, Spengler became increasingly marginalised. His last major work, The Hour of Decision, was banned by the Nazi censors due to its criticisms of certain aspects of Nazi ideology. Three years later Spengler passed away from natural causes at his home in Munich.6. The Decline of the West: Volume I, Form and Actuality, and Volume II, Perspectives of World-History [Two Volume Set]
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Volume 2 - Perspectives of World History.7. The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World-History (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World-HistoryPersians, p. 166. Morphology of peoples, p. 169. People and nation, p. 170. Classical, Arabian, and Western nations, p. 173.
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8. The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks) by Spengler, Oswald abridged Edition (1991)
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