[20] November 28 - Spenglerism
Section outline
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Presentation: Lukas
Assigned reading:
Oswald Spengler, "Introduction," The Decline of the West (1918) (abridged)
Choose ONE response reading according to language preference. (NB: Bazarov is the default English-language option.)
V. Bazarov, “O. Spengler and his critics,” Krasnaia nov’ no. 2 (1922), 211-231. (Original Russian text here.)Hornyánszky Gyula, review of Spengler, Társadalomtudomány 1 (1921): 230-241.
Pauler Ákos, "Uj kultúrfilozófia," Athenaeum 6 (1920): 82-87. [or PDF below]
Florian Znaniecki, Upadek cywilizacji zachodniej. Szkic z pogranicza filozofji kultury i socjologji (1921).
A. Leitis, "Реакційна література на Заході," Всесвіт no. 15 (1925): 14-15. [at libraria.ua]
A. Vul'fius, "Osval'd Shpengler kak istorik," Annaly: Zhurnal vseobshchei istorii 2 (1922), 17-30.
Jos. Šusta, review of Spengler, Český Časopis Historický 27 (1921): 175-197.
Wilhelm Bauer, "Der zweite Band Spengler," Neues Wiener Tagblatt (31 July 1922), 3-4.
Ernst Troeltsch, review of Spengler, Historische Zeitschrift 120 (1919): 281-291.
Otto Stoeffl, "Weltgeschichte als Urphänomen," Pester Lloyd (28 December 1918), 2-3.
Otto Neurath, "Anti-Spengler," in Empiricism and Sociology (1973 [1921], 158-213.
Paul Riebesell, "Die Mathematik und die Naturwissenschaften in Spenglers 'Untergang des Abendlandes'," Die Naturwissenschaften 26 (1920): 507-509.
P. Preobrazhenskii, "Освальд Шпенглер и крушение истины," Печать и революция no. 1 (1922), 58-65.
I. I. Lapshin, "Umiranje umetnosti," Ljubljanski zvon 49 (1929): 530-537. [Sorry, a translation was the best I could manage]
Image: Vladimir Mayakovsky: "All Spenglers are just Stinnes brains" [click to enlarge]