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Per la prima volta in ebook un classico della filosofia del '900 È difficile trovare, nell’Europa degli anni Venti, un’opera storica o filosofica che abbia avuto il peso e l’influenza culturale del Tramonto dell’Occidente. Immensa costruzione ideologica e mitologica, in cui una grande congerie di dati è ordinata in modo da costituire una struttura ciclica della storia, l’opera di Spengler ebbe una ricezione imprevedibilmente ampia; e il suo autore, da sconosciuto professore di provincia tedesco, divenne quello che si potrebbe dire «un filosofo di successo». Ma la portata del libro era in realtà così rilevante da assicurargli una vita duratura e da renderlo oggetto di analisi e di riflessioni in epoche e temperie culturali e politiche ben lontane ormai dal periodo che l’aveva prodotto. Il tramonto dell’Occidente può essere letto come una tradizionale reazione allo spirito dell’Illuminismo, e proprio a questa interpretazione deve il suo grande successo.
- ISBN: 8830443522
- Casa Editrice: Longanesi
- Pagine: 1522
- Data di uscita: 25-06-2015
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Liked this book so much I quit drinking for a month
All genuine historical work is philosophy, unless it is mere ant-industry. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of my favorite books, not only because it is written so beautifully, but because of the spectacle of decline —of a great empire slowly and inevitably crumbling. The scene Leggi tutto
Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West was a huge international bestseller after the First World War for reasons that will become obvious, and for reasons that may be just as much so, Spengler considered his theories prophetic and completely justified given that he started this book in 1911 befor Leggi tutto
the Dusk of the Evening-Land - read all through a gnostic lens - metahistory as the archonic scar of reality, metahistory as how people in history saw themselves in history, spirit unfolding - the creation of Spheres to immunize from the Real: all responses to death, all morphologies of a blossoming Leggi tutto
This is truly an awful book. It has an overriding incoherent theory of a ‘morphology’ on history and the author’s frustrations against democracy, and it has a sympathy for Nationalism while fascism flows throughout the second volume (yes, I read both volumes I and II). First, the author is not reall Leggi tutto
ok, this is epic.
Spengler is popularizing the academic and elitist idea that each culture and during different times has its own worldview. And not just that, but the “right” historian and philosopher (i.e., Spengler himself) is “reading” that worldview retrospectively from the different domains of arts, sciences, p Leggi tutto
The rare honest conservative intellectual. Spengler explores the factors that make all cultures unique. The decline of the west he speaks of needs not be a negative one, but a simple passage in the narrative of history. It is a shame his work was appropriated by fascists, but it serves as a very use Leggi tutto
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