The decline of the west

[Anonymous No.20419495]

Am I in for something interesting /lit/? Just got this book as a gift.

[Anonymous No.20419557]

Without a proper central european education and an interest in all the science you will not get anything out of this.

[Anonymous No.20419559]

>>20419557
What books do you consider prerequisites for this then?

[Anonymous No.20419562]

>>20419559
Throwing it in the trash

[Anonymous No.20419564]

>>20419562
>/lit/ - Do not read books & Throw them in the trash

[Anonymous No.20419605]

>>20419559
there are too many to list and you need more than just books. You need to have seen the art, visited cities, countrysides, mountains and the see and seen the buildings even if just the ruins. And I really think you need to have done the hard sciences outside of a classroom and jsut reading a book. Experience in a chemistry/physics lab is essential for grasping gaustian science.
You need to be proper european.

But a good list he himself gives is Book 1 end of chapter 5 where he lists the TRUE philosophy of the occident. It starts with:
>1819 Schopenhauer, "World as Will and representation"...
>1836 Schopenhauer, "Über den Willen in der Natur"...
>1840 Proudhon, "Qu'est-ce que la proprieté"...
>
>
>1905 Shaw, Major Barbara"
you should have read at least half of those listed books.

Personally I say you need to understand and feel the Goethe-Kant distinction the most.

[Anonymous No.20419612]

>>20419557
>a proper central european education
I don't know how someone types such a phrase without dying of embarrassment.

[Anonymous No.20419653]

>>20419612
seethe

[Anonymous No.20419661]

>>20419562
Gb2plebbit

[Anonymous No.20420124]

>>20419495
Just watch the videos and pretend you have read him like the rest of us, bro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsaieZt5vjk

[Anonymous No.20420433]

>>20419612
So you think some ooga booga with a high school education could understand it?

[Anonymous No.20420479]

>>20419495
>Just got this book as a gift.
why don't i get such cool gifts...

[Anonymous No.20420493]

>>20419495
>as a gift
Explain the entire backstory please.

[Anonymous No.20420541]

>>20419495
I think I should have bought abridged version. The full version I bought is really big and boring.

[Anonymous No.20420670]

>>20419562
dilate

[Anonymous No.20420681]

>>20420433
there's universities and inteligent people in ooga booga land too. I think if someone feels drawn to this book they probably have *some* knowledge about what it talks about

[dago !deClb9SBC. No.20420746]

>>20420124
this but unironically
if you're gonna read spengler, read Hour of Decision and Prussianism and Socialism

[Anonymous No.20420765]

>>20420124
that's some real rubbish

[Anonymous No.20420774]

>>20420124
>
Oswald's father, Bernhard Spengler, held the position of a postal secretary (Postsekretär) and was a hard-working man with a marked dislike of intellectualism, who tried to instil the same values and attitudes in his son.
it shows

[Anonymous No.20420792]

>>20419495
it's a great book, but as others have said, if you're new to history, art, philosophy and even math, then it might be a little difficult.
but there's still a lot of stuff you can glean from it, even if not everything. Definitely keep it, even if it's too difficult for you right now. Maybe after you've leveled up some more you can give it another go

[Anonymous No.20420874]

>>20420493
I lived in islands and mountains for 28 years. And all I wanted was to move in the city. To find I don't know what. Last year I finally left. When I arrived here, I knew what I was going to meet and wanted to witness it; mainly the worst things, pain, misery and to be completely alone in a city of 5 million people. Last week I went back to the islands. And I couldn't speak with my friends. We had a dreamy time together for 2 days but I was completely silent. I came back in the city and I decided to get away from here. It's disgusting for me. I did breath clear oxygen and had clear water and here I've gone sick, my body and mentally. My skin, my hair, my health has a very noticeable difference. And what for? I came upon this book I don't know how and I gifted it to myself and my best friend. I don't give a fuck about the city. I want to go back to the mountains and the islands, breath and fight for them. The city doesn't give a fuck about me too, so we're fine.
Now I'll shut the fuck up and take my secret meds.

[Anonymous No.20420910]

>>20420874
weird flex but okay.
Hope it was the German original version.

[Anonymous No.20421001]

>>20420910
It's the english version.
Merely a flex. More like a bridge between it and the book.

[Anonymous No.20421143]

>>20421001
Anyways, it's a fun read.

[Anonymous No.20421168]

>>20419612
former Austro-Hungarian gymnasiums are the peak education model for sculpting intellectuals, west europeans can seethe, and americans are basically illiterate if you ask me

[Anonymous No.20421207]

>>20421143
feels more relevant than then

[Anonymous No.20421572]

>>20419562
faggot