The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself every great question of Being.
"If therefore we are to discover in what form the destiny of the Western Culture will be accomplished, we must first be clear as to what culture is, what its relations are to visible history, to life, to soul, to nature, to intellect, what the forms of its manifestation are and how far these forms — peoples, tongues and epochs, battles and ideas, states and gods, arts and craftworks, sciences, laws, economic types and world ideas, great men and great events — may be accepted and pointed to as symbols."
Duration - 19h 11m.
Author - Oswald Spengler.
Narrator - Graham Dunlop.
Published Date - Friday, 12 January 2024.
Copyright - © 1926 Oswald Spengler ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself every great question of Being. "If therefore we are to discover in what form the destiny of the Western Culture will be accomplished, we must first be clear as to what culture is, what its relations are to visible history, to life, to soul, to nature, to intellect, what the forms of its manifestation are and how far these forms — peoples, tongues and epochs, battles and ideas, states and gods, arts and craftworks, sciences, laws, economic types and world ideas, great men and great events — may be accepted and pointed to as symbols." Duration - 19h 11m. Author - Oswald Spengler. Narrator - Graham Dunlop. Published Date - Friday, 12 January 2024. Copyright - © 1926 Oswald Spengler ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:12
Oswald Spengler by Arthur Helps
Duration:00:22:17
Preface to the Revised Edition
Duration:00:05:39
Preface to the First Edition
Duration:00:02:07
Chapter I, Introduction
Duration:01:41:45
Chapter II, The Meaning of Numbers
Duration:01:16:54
Chapter III, The Problem of World-History
Duration:00:42:44
Chapter IV, Makrokosmos; The Symbolism of the World-Picture and the Space-Problem
Duration:00:27:30
Chapter V, Makrokosmos; Apollinian, Faustian and Magian Soul
Duration:00:48:52
Chapter VI, Music and Plastic; The Arts of Form
Duration:00:55:15
Chapter VII, Music and Plastic; Act and Portrait
Duration:01:04:51
Chapter VIII, Soul-Image and Life-Feeling; On the Form of the Soul
Duration:00:47:49
Chapter IX Soul-Image and Life Feeling; Buddhism, Stoicism, Socialism
Duration:00:33:30
Chapter X Faustian and Apollinian Nature-Knowledge
Duration:01:46:16
Chapter XI Origin and Landscape; The Cosmic and the Microcosm
Duration:00:09:52
Chapter XII Origin and Landscape; The Group of the Higher Cultures
Duration:00:41:52
Chapter XIII Cities and Peoples
Duration:01:02:20
Chapter XIV Problems of the Arabian Culture; Historic Pseudomorphoses
Duration:01:24:44
Chapter XV Problems of the Arabian Culture; The Magian Soul
Duration:00:53:39
Chapter XVI Problems of the Arabian Culture; Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell
Duration:01:37:22
Chapter XVII The State; The Problem of the Estates
Duration:00:16:07
Chapter XVIII State and History
Duration:00:59:54
Chapter XIX Philosophy of Politics
Duration:00:42:10
Chapter XX The Form-World of Economic Life; Money
Duration:00:30:17
Chapter XXI The Form-World of Economic Life; The Machine
Duration:00:17:42
Ending Credits
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