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Oswald Spengler woodcut – Bertrand Zadig
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Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he does so magnificently.
Spengler’s magnum opus is The Decline of the West
There is little worthwhile secondary literature on Spengler in English, and much of it appears on this site. I also recommend John Farrenkopf’s Prophet of Decline: Spengler on World History and Politics.
Spengler is one of the most often tagged figures at Counter-Currents.
Here are the main works we have published by and about Spengler:
By Spengler:
- “Is World Peace Possible?“
- “The Colored World Revolution,” Part 1
- “The Colored World Revolution,” Part 2
- “Pessimism?“
- “Nietzsche and His Century“
- “Prussians and Englishmen,” Part 1
- “Prussians and Englishmen,” Part 2
- “Prussians and Englishmen,” Part 3
On Spengler:
- Kerry Bolton, “Oswald Spengler: May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936“
- Kerry Bolton, “Nietzsche and Spengler: Preface to Thinkers of the Right“
- Domitius Corbulo, “The Faustian Soul and Western Uniqueness“
- Greg Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?” (translations: French, Spanish)
- Revilo Oliver, “Oswald Spengler: Criticism and Tribute“
- Robert Steuckers, “Atlantis, Kush, and Turan: Prehistoric Matrices of Ancient Civilizations in the Posthumous Work of Spengler,” Part 1, Part 2
- Robert Steuckers, “Evola and Spengler” (in Czech)
- Keith Stimely, “Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas“
Articles Making Substantial Mention of Spengler:
- Kerry Bolton, “A Contemporary Evaluation of Francis Parker Yockey,” Part 1
- Kerry Bolton, “Wall Street and the November 1917 Bolshevik Revolution“
- Collin Cleary, “Becoming Who We Are: Leftist Eurocentrism and the Destiny of the West” (in French)
- Collin Cleary, “Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization,” Part 2, Part 3
- Collin Cleary, “Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition,” Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
- Derek Hawthorne, “D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love: Anti-Modernism in Literature,” Part 3
- Eugène Montsalvat, “Contra Faustian Man“
- Revilo Oliver, “Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West“
- Revilo Oliver, “The Shadow of Empire: Francis Parker Yockey After Twenty Years“
- William Pierce, “The Faustian Spirit” (in French)
- William Pierce, “Purpose in Life“
- Ted Sallis, “The Overman High Culture: Future of the West” (translations: French, Portuguese)
- Interview with Robert Steuckers
- Robert Steuckers, “Postmodern Challenges: Between Faust and Narcissus,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Portuguese translation here)
- Lucian Tudor, “The German Conservative Revolution and its Legacy“
- Francis Parker Yockey, “Culture (December 1953)“
- Francis Parker Yockey, “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal” (Excerpt)
- Francis Parker Yockey, “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: Prussianism and Americanism“
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5 comments
Spengler’s “The Decline Of The West” is a great book. I don’t pretend to understand all its implications because I lack Spengler’s knowledge of architecture, music and mathematics. What I really liked was his explanation that western music i.e., classical music is designed to fill space or was that Houston Stewart Chamberlain in his “The Foundations of The Nineteenth Century?” Anyways if you haven’t read it you need to.
The New Right must get serious in its evaluation of Spengler. Spengler’s intellectual successor in Germany was the Jewish historiographer Karl Löwith. Both Spengler and Löwith received a modernist reply in the non-Jewish philosopher Hans Blumenberg, who is still studied today in Germany. But in the Anglosphere the latter two have been reduced to footnotes. This is certainly because Spengler’s tone is much more gripping. Guénon has exercised similar influence from rhetorical ability alone.
Your point is not exactly clear.
My point is that we should be more involved in the intellectual conversation that has taken place since 1918 instead of relying on Spengler alone.
So you were responding to a straw man of your own construction. Now I understand.
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