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May 29, 2019 2 comments

Remembering Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

Greg Johnson

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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, 2 vols. (1918 and 1922). He also wrote three shorter books: Prussianism and Socialism (1919), Man and Technics (1931), and The Hour of Decision (1934).

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“
  • Ricardo Duchesne, “Oswald Spengler and the Faustian Soul of the West.” Part 1, Part 2
  • Richard J. Herbert, “The Question of Race in Spengler and its Meaning for Contemporary Racialism“
  • Greg Johnson, “Is Racial Purism Decadent?” (translations: French, Spanish)
  • Margot Metroland, “Oswald Spengler & the Controversy of Caesarism“
  • Margot Metroland, “Spengler, Yockey, and The Hour of Decision“
  • Richard Moore, “Oswald Spengler“
  • Revilo Oliver, “Oswald Spengler: Criticism and Tribute“
  • A. E. Stern, “Between the Heroic & the Immeasurable: The Historical Background of Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of Science“
  • 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, “Australian Artists of the Right: Norman Lindsay,” Part 1, Part 2
  • 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
  • Jared George, “Rock ‘n’ Roll & The European Soul“
  • Derek Hawthorne, “D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love: Anti-Modernism in Literature,” Part 3
  • Nicholas R. Jeelvy, “Biospenglerianism“
  • Greg Johnson, “Historicizing the Historicists: Notes on Leo Strauss’ ‘The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,’ Part 1“
  • Greg Johnson, “Our Marx, Only Better: Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism“
  • Eugène Montsalvat, “Contra Faustian Man” (in French)
  • Revilo Oliver, “Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West“
  • Revilo Oliver, “The Shadow of Empire: Francis Parker Yockey After Twenty Years“
  • Christopher Pankhurst, “Toward a Right-Wing Hauntology“
  • 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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2 comments

  1. BroncoColorado says:
    May 30, 2019 at 5:38 am

    Spengler got Europeans thinking about where their culture and civilization were heading, but he didn’t do us any favors by proposing an explanation clothed in a deterministic biological metaphor. Inescapable destiny is not an attractive prospect for the questing and adventurous spirit of ‘Faustian Man’.
    A good critique of Spengler et. al. (Toynbee, Schubart, Danilevsky, Berdyaev) is provided by Pitirim Sorokin’s book ‘Modern Historical and Social Philosophies’. The Russian emigre author writes in a clear accessible style and ably demolishes many articles of received historical wisdom. Although long out of print secondhand copies are readily available and is worth reading if only for introducing to the Westerner the prescient observations made by Nikolai Danilevsky in 1871.

  2. Sartor says:
    May 31, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    I’d add Eric Heller’s Disinherited Mind which has an insightful essay on Spengler. I read it years ago but can still recall some of it.
    Also Revilo Olivers tribute : http://vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/17/2/Oliver10.html

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