The decline of the West /
Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University press,
1991.
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| Series: | Oxford paperbacks (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The meaning of numbers
- The problem of world-history
- Makrokosmos: the symbolism of the world-picture and the space problem
- Makrokosmos: Apollinian, Faustian and Magian soul
- Music and plastic: the arts of form
- Music and plastic: act and portrait
- Soul-image and life-feeling: on the form of the soul
- Soul-image and life-feeling: Buddhism, stoicism, socialism
- Faustian and Apollinian nature-knowledge
- Origin and landscape: the cosmic and the microcosm. Origin and landscape: the group of the higher cultures
- Cities and peoples
- Problems of the Arabian culture: historic pseudomorphoses
- Problems of the Arabian culture: the Magian soul
- Problems of the Arabian culture: Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell
- The state: the problem of the estates
- State and history
- Philosophy of politics
- The form-world of economic life: money
- The form-world of economic life: the machine.
