The Decline of the West

斯宾格勒原先只是一名普通的中学教师，20世纪二三十年代，他因《西方的没落》一书一举成名，挤身于二十世纪最有影响的历史学家之列。

出版者:Vintage

作者:Oswald Spengler

页数:480

出版时间:2006-4-11

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781400097005

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.

This abridgment presents the most significant of Oswald Spengler’s arguments, linked by illuminating explanatory passages. It makes available in one volume a masterpiece of grand-scale history and far-reaching prophesy that remains essential reading for anyone interested in the factors that determine the course of civilizations.

读后感

这本书是我读过最好的关于哲学和文化的书籍。斯宾格勒在这本书里恣意地挥洒着自己的学识和见解，极少受到前人思想的约束。看了之后，我发现之前所有我想过的问题，都被斯宾格勒想过了，并且，他都给了最好的解释。  

依据的版本、是否全译或节译的说明、原本是否有前言后记或者注解、附录、译者的介绍...... 一概没有，裸突突的一堆肉，骨头和皮都不知所踪。什么年代了，出版社怎么可能还在出这种水准的本子，真是不可思议！  

1.第二卷基本沿袭齐世荣等人的译本（许多地方基本照录），但一些名词准确性比后者高。 2.个人觉得台湾的陈晓林译本文学性较强，可惜是节译本。 3.吴译许多地方翻译得罗里罗嗦的，尤其是第一卷，读起来有些烦人。 4.当然，这部对当代中国学术界影响深远的历史哲学著作有第一个中...  

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坑爹 毛都没看懂

坑爹 毛都没看懂

“Thereal organ of history is “memory” in the sense which is always postulated in this book, viz., that which preserves as a constant present the image of one’s personal past and of a national and a world historical pastas well, and is conscious of the course both of personal and of super-personal becoming. 内在秩序淆 你又开始zhanjie啦？

坑爹 毛都没看懂

坑爹 毛都没看懂