Claverhouse
25 Jul 2004, 12:51 AM
Anyone unfamiliar with the thinker who best defined the life and death of all cultures may like to find out a bit before starting on 'The Decline of the West'
The Oswald Spengler Collection (http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/)
has extracts and essays, whilst the biographical sketch is a downbeat introduction:
Biography (http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/biographical.html)
Another short overview is here, by David McNaughton:
Oswald Spengler and world history (http://dlmcn.com/oswaldspengler.html)
A year-list in German of his life + photo:
Biographie (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SpenglerOswald/)
A review dealing with his thought:
Review of Farrenkopf (http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol2no1/jw-farrenkopf.html)
John Reilly, an idiosyncratic thinker offers his own views as a modern semi-disciple of Spengler. His home-page is at:
John Reilly (http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/index.htm)
He has a type of guessed prediction paper ( An Outline of the Next Seven Centuries of Western History, as Suggested by Comparison with the Life Cycles of Four Other Civilizations ) at:
Spengler's Future (http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/speng.htm)
Basically, Spengler is unbearably right.
And as I once put it in another place on a different subject ( if adhering to his outlook ):
On the question as to the true line returning, to any of their lands,
I certainly hope so: but I also know that it will not happen. Any
number of reasons militate against this, mainly though that our
civilisation has entered the ineluctable phase of dying ( happens to
all of us ). This though is no reason at all not to continue to
believe in true things, nor to cease from striving. In the end God
cares not whether we were successful, or even agreeable: the only
thing that truly matters is being right :ph34r: .
Claverhouse :ph34r:
The Oswald Spengler Collection (http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/)
has extracts and essays, whilst the biographical sketch is a downbeat introduction:
Biography (http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/biographical.html)
Another short overview is here, by David McNaughton:
Oswald Spengler and world history (http://dlmcn.com/oswaldspengler.html)
A year-list in German of his life + photo:
Biographie (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SpenglerOswald/)
A review dealing with his thought:
Review of Farrenkopf (http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol2no1/jw-farrenkopf.html)
John Reilly, an idiosyncratic thinker offers his own views as a modern semi-disciple of Spengler. His home-page is at:
John Reilly (http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/index.htm)
He has a type of guessed prediction paper ( An Outline of the Next Seven Centuries of Western History, as Suggested by Comparison with the Life Cycles of Four Other Civilizations ) at:
Spengler's Future (http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/speng.htm)
Basically, Spengler is unbearably right.
And as I once put it in another place on a different subject ( if adhering to his outlook ):
On the question as to the true line returning, to any of their lands,
I certainly hope so: but I also know that it will not happen. Any
number of reasons militate against this, mainly though that our
civilisation has entered the ineluctable phase of dying ( happens to
all of us ). This though is no reason at all not to continue to
believe in true things, nor to cease from striving. In the end God
cares not whether we were successful, or even agreeable: the only
thing that truly matters is being right :ph34r: .
Claverhouse :ph34r: