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An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar
Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the mind’s eye, we can observe an amazing thing about the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche, something that was hardly noticeable in his own time. Read more …
Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936
6,158 words
My book (The Decline of the West, Vol. I.) has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach which arrives at new conclusions. Such a reaction is all the more to be expected when the conclusions reached, or even the perspectives and methodology that led to them, present a serious challenge to the prevailing mood of an age. Read more …
Uckfield, Sussex: Historical Review Press, n.d.
80 pages
paperback: $12
Man and Technics is an ideal introduction to Oswald Spengler’s philosophy of history and culture. In it, he condenses the essentials of his sprawling, 1,000+ page magnum opus The Decline of the West Read more …
3,597 words
From The Hour of Decision (1933)
Part 2 of 2. Click here for Part 1.
This general Colored Revolution over the whole earth marches under the disguise of very varied tendencies: national, economic, social. Read more …
The French Revolution comes to Haiti
3,667 words
From The Hour of Decision (1933)
The Western Civilization of this century is threatened, not by one, but by two world revolutions of major dimensions. In both their real compass, their profundity, and their workings have so far escaped recognition. Read more …
473 words
A cabled reply to an American poll
First published in Cosmopolitan, January, 1936
The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. Read more …
