[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 115 KB, 397x600, Oswald.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3851523 No.3851523 [Reply] [Original]

I have been trying to locate a copy of Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West" but am having extreme difficulty finding a copy that is unabridged. I purchased the abridged version, but it is extremely shortened, not Spengler's words, and is basically a paraphrase that radiates the authors bias. I have two questions. First, I have read summaries of the book, but wanted to know of the intellectual level of the book. Does it hold up or is it a relic of outdated pseudo-intellectualism? Second, has anyone an idea where I might find an unabridged copy?

>> No.3851596

bump

>> No.3851648

stop
come to grips with 2013

>> No.3851655

http://archive.org/details/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler

>> No.3851687

>>3851655
Thank you, I guess I'll have to make due with this since I cannot have a hard copy and really do not want to print that many pages.

>>3851648
What are you referring to? I was asking about Spengler, not advocating him. I admitted that I haven't even read him.

>> No.3851697

Just read a copy of the Say I'm well, Ian.

>> No.3851701

>>3851687
nevermind

idk

>> No.3851720

So no one has anything to say about the intellectual value of Oswald Spengler? I want to know before I dig into his extremely long book. I don't want to end up reading another Alfred Rosenbergeqsue pseudo-intellectual of the Reich era.

>> No.3851726

>>3851720
He's not a Nazi, not racially inclined, and didn't really support them. The more intelligent Nazis jumped on his bandwagon as some academic justification.

>> No.3851730

>>3851726
Then why is he associated with the far right?

>> No.3851751

>>3851726
So would you say that he is worth reading, that his work contains genuine intellectual work, and that his thought holds up?

>> No.3851760

>>3851720
He's a cultural pessimist product of the Weimar era like so many others. He's part of the same milieu as most German right and centre intellectuals of that period, a great many of which associated with the Nazis, though he criticized the Nazis and was repudiated for it.

Even if he's "wrong", it's still interesting to study the effects of that period on the thought of intellectuals.

>> No.3852060

bump

>> No.3852489

>>3851730
define the "far right'?

>> No.3853771

>>3852489
The right that sympathizes with authoritarianism and is anti-democratic.

>> No.3853865

is that honk schruder in your pic opp
does wolter go back in time

>> No.3854003

>>3853865
No, its Oswald Spengler.