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.”
Chapters
00:00 Oswald Spengler by Arthur Helps
22:28 Preface to the Revised Edition
28:08 Preface to the First Edition
30:16 Chapter I, Introduction
2:12:03 Chapter II, The Meaning of Numbers
3:28:58 Chapter III, The Problem of World-History
4:11:42 Chapter IV, Makrokosmos; The Symbolism of the World-Picture and the Space-Problem
4:39:13 Chapter V, Makrokosmos; Apollinian, Faustian and Magian Soul
5:28:05 Chapter VI, Music and Plastic; The Arts of Form
6:23:22 Chapter VII, Music and Plastic; Act and Portrait
7:28:15 Chapter VIII, Soul-Image and Life-Feeling; On the Form of the Soul
8:16:03 Chapter IX Soul-Image and Life Feeling; Buddhism, Stoicism, Socialism
8:49:37 Chapter X Faustian and Apollinian Nature-Knowledge
10:35:52 Chapter XI Origin and Landscape; The Cosmic and the Microcosm
10:45:45 Chapter XII Origin and Landscape; The Group of the Higher Cultures
11:27:38 Chapter XIII Cities and Peoples
12:30:00 Chapter XIV Problems of the Arabian Culture; Historic Pseudomorphoses
13:54:46 Chapter XV Problems of the Arabian Culture; The Magian Soul
14:48:25 Chapter XVI Problems of the Arabian Culture; Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell
16:25:49 Chapter XVII The State; The Problem of the Estates
16:41:55 Chapter XVIII State and History
17:41:50 Chapter XIX Philosophy of Politics
18:24:01 Chapter XX The Form-World of Economic Life; Money
18:54:20 Chapter XXI The Form-World of Economic Life; The Machine
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