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Oswald Spengler

Forfatterbiografi

Oswald Spengler (29. maj 1880 i Blankenburg, Tyskland – 8. maj 1936 i München) var en tysk historiker, filosof og forfatter. Han arbejdede bredt med idéer om historie og kultur, ofte formuleret med afsæt i en “morfologi” over verdenshistorien, hvor kulturer beskrives som levende størrelser med bestemte livsfaser. Spenglers mest kendte værk er Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte), udgivet i to bind fra 1918 til 1922. Bogen blev hurtigt kendt for sin pessimistiske kulturfilosofi og for dens indflydelse på den europæiske samtids debat om civilisationernes fremtid. Spenglers idéer blev modtaget med både begejstring og kritik og kom til at fungere som referencepunkt for senere historiefortolkninger og intellektuelle strømninger, netop fordi han flyttede fokus fra lineær fremskridts-tænkning til cykliske mønstre. I eftertiden er han ofte blevet fremhævet som en betydningsfuld, polemisk stemme inden for historiefilosofi, hvor han kombinerede skarpe begreber, store historiske sammenligninger og en stærk fortolkningskraft.

Bøger af Oswald Spengler

'Man and Technics'
'Man and Technics'

Bog | Engelsk

In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after over ninety years. He foresaw the environmental consequences of industrialization, leading to species extinction. Spengler predicted that

'Preußentum und Sozialismus'
'Preußentum und Sozialismus'

Bog | Tysk

Oswald Spengler: Preuentum und Sozialismus Erstdruck: Munchen, C. H. Beck, 1919. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preuentum und Sozialismus Einleitung Die Revolution Sozialismus als Lebensform Englander und Preuen Marx Die Internationale Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von K

'Heraclitus'
'Heraclitus'

Bog | Engelsk

Spengler's essay, which appeared in 1904 as a dissertation for his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Halle, had a remarkable impact at the beginning of our century because of the originality of its interpretation of the Heraclitean doctrine

'The Decline of the West, Vol. I'
'The Decline of the West, Vol. I'

Bog | Engelsk

"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, incl

'Man and Technics'
'Man and Technics'

Bog | Engelsk

2020 Reprint of the 1932 Edition. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life is a short book by Oswald Spengler, in which the author presents a harsh critique of technology and industrialism, especially in Western Society during Spengler&#39

'Prussianism and Socialism '
'Prussianism and Socialism '

Bog | Engelsk

In this new translation of Prussianism and Socialism , Oswald Spengler reflects on the relationship between socialism, liberalism and Prussianism. For Spengler, Prussianism is a typically German disposition, which is expressed in qualities such as a sense

'The Decline of the West'
'The Decline of the West'

Bog | Engelsk

This brand-new English translation and carefully crafted abridgment of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West brings fresh life to a monumental work first published in 1918-one that stunned Europe with its radical thesis: civilizations are not immo

'Der Untergang des Abendlandes'
'Der Untergang des Abendlandes'

Bog | Tysk

Spenglers Idee vom Untergang des Abendlandes markiert eine Wende in der Geschichtsphilosophie. Gegen die Vorstellung eines linearen Voranschreitens der Geschichte (Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit) setzt er den Gedanken eines zyklischen Werdens und Vergehens.

'Preußentum und Sozialismus'
'Preußentum und Sozialismus'

Bog | Tysk

Oswald Spengler: Preuentum und Sozialismus Erstdruck: Munchen, C. H. Beck, 1919. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preuentum und Sozialismus Einleitung Die Revolution Sozialismus als Lebensform Englander und Preuen Marx Die Internationale Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von K

'The Decline of the West, Volume I'
'The Decline of the West, Volume I'

Bog | Engelsk

" ...the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies, ...but the type of a historical change of phase occurring within a great historical organism of defina

'The Decline of the West'
'The Decline of the West'

Bog | Engelsk

2022 Reprint of VOLUME ONE of the 1926 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, comprises the first volume of Spengler's monumental treatise on the Decl

'The Decline of the West, Volume II'
'The Decline of the West, Volume II'

Bog | Engelsk

" ...the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies, ...but the type of a historical change of phase occurring within a great historical organism of defina

'The Decline of the West'
'The Decline of the West'

Bog | Engelsk

The first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a milestone in historiography. It is not a standard history book. Instead, it tries to explain the mechanisms that make different cultures tick. While classical culture had no concept of

'The Decline of the West, Two Volumes in One'
'The Decline of the West, Two Volumes in One'

Bog | Engelsk

" ...the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies, ...but the type of a historical change of phase occurring within a great historical organism of defina

'The Decline of the West'
'The Decline of the West'

Bog | Engelsk

The first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a milestone in historiography. It is not a standard history book. Instead, it tries to explain the mechanisms that make different cultures tick. While classical culture had no concept of

'The Decline of the West'
'The Decline of the West'

Bog | Engelsk

In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West , Oswald Spengler deals with the world-historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology. The periodical calm surrounding the constant and eternally re