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Is there a good secondary literature for Spengler's "The Decline of the West"?
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>>24115600
Imperium
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Adorno wrote a pretty good essay on it.
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I thought Prophets of Doom was a neat introduction to theories of history like it
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>>24116106
Unsurprisingly written by a really stupid neoreactionary, probably has some value for understanding a right wing perspective but I wouldn't give this guy a penny.
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>>24117270
>Opens a thread about a reactionary writer
>Wtf why are people discussing him neoreactionaries? I would never be that stupid
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>>24115680
https://archive.org/details/studies-in-philosophy-and-social-science_1941_9_2/
>"How does everything that is to be appear so ill" (“Wie scheint doch alles Werdende so krank” )—this sentence of the poet Georg Trakl transcends Spengler’s landscape.
Goddamn
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>>24115600
Decline from what? What did this guy deem as the peak of the West?
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>>24117760
This
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>>24117797
So devoid of motion that painting
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>>24115600
yes, this gentleman.
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>>24118039
https://www.schmidtsche-vbh.de/ansehen_kui.html
https://www.schmidtsche-vbh.de/ansehen_migii.html

The second book is not the scope of what I want. In the first book, does the author tell us what the Goethean morphology is, how can be applied on history, or how is methodology of illustration defined? or does he just illustrate the current historical process with spenglerian manner without telling us what their methodology are?
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>>24117270
Ok? It’s not like you have to spend money for books in this day and age you boomer
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>>24115600
>Oswald Spengler, Prophet of World Chaos - Ridolf Steiner
>Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
>A Study of History - Arnold Toynbee
>The Decline and Fall of Civilisations - Kerry Bolton

Older works

>The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History - Brooks Adams
>The New Science - Giambattista Vico
>Muqaddimah - Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun
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>>24119024
Rudolf Steiner*
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>>24115600
Yes, living in (faustian) Europe.
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>>24118039
kek his Fahrvergnügen videos driving around the countryside are kino
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>>24115600
Kissing wrote on him for his BA thesis and it was peak midwit.
Holy wowzers what a low quality philosophy undergrad was that guy.



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