Prior Reading to Understand the Decline of the West

[Anonymous No.20600679]

What should I read before picrel in order to best understand it?

[Anonymous No.20600690]

>>20600679
Don’t bother with this schlop

[Anonymous No.20600771]

>>20600679
Start with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.20600773]

>>20600679
Hegels philosophy of history

[Anonymous No.20600782]

Nothing. There is so much in there that you couldn’t possibly read enough of it for preparation. Actually, don’t even read the book. It will completely takeover your worldview and you won’t easily be able to forget it.

[Anonymous No.20600795]

a complete guide to HRT

[Anonymous No.20600965]

For me it was unironically browsing wikipedia history pages for years to the point all of the allusions made sense

[Anonymous No.20600988]

>>20600679
BLACKED Future

[Anonymous No.20601003]

Try this

[Anonymous No.20601004]

>>20600782
True. Everything that happens will constantly remind u of that bald nigga. He will live in your head rent free.

[Anonymous No.20601014]

>>20600679
What bothers me about seeing this pop up here all the time is that the original German title is so unfathomably based but “Abendland” doesn’t really have an equivalent translation in English. West or Occident is fine I guess but it isn’t as poetic. Feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.20601438]

Don’t

[Anonymous No.20601444]

>>20600965
Average /his/ user
Do you watch slop YouTube history videos too?

[Anonymous No.20602052]

>>20600679
i have read and studied Plato, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and a few more, when i started reading i actually found it quite easy to read for someone who doesnt have the same philosophical background as me, so perhaps just read some secondary sources on the philosophers mentioned above

[Anonymous No.20602109]

>>20601014
Land of the Setting Sun? The Gloam? /lit/ should be able to think of something

[Anonymous No.20603407]

>>20600679
Schopenhauer's essays on women

[Anonymous No.20604853]

>>20600679
You should have at least a basic comprehension of these men's ideas and place in history.

[Anonymous No.20604893]

>>20600690
fpbp

[Anonymous No.20605195]

literally everything, but to mention a name not brought up so far, try reading "geschichte des altertums" from eduard meyer, a massive work to be frank, but it gives an important overview over its epochs.

also, the first volume contains a list of all 19th century works with a philosophical vein he considered to be of importance. if someone bothered to make a macro of it, it could probably become a popular image to spam around here

[Anonymous No.20605204]

>>20600679
Literally single thing written before it from all fields.
Not even kidding.

[Anonymous No.20605817]

Mesoamerican history nerd here

I read the bit it had on Mesoamerica and skimmed some of the rest just so I could update pic related with more accurate images (which this upload has, I have some varients too).

A lot of the stuff it says on Mesoamerica is extremely outdated, which makes sense given the age of the book: It literally predates the decipherment of the Maya script and by extension all our knowledge on Maya politics and rulers, as well as basically like 80% of the entire field in general. At the same time, I was pleasently suprised given how much Spengler clearly recognized the sophistication of the societies and the tragedy of what was lost.

That being said the entire model he proposes for societies in general seems like pseudoscientific nonsense and basically metaphysics for civilizations.