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:Oxford University Press

作者:Oswald Spengler

页数:492

译者:Charles Francis Atkinson

出版时间:1991-2-14

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195066340

图书标签:历史spengler哲学oswald德国History英文原版文学

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Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations of the background and origins of our civilization. He chose his main title in 1912, finished the first draft of "Form and Actuality" ("Gestalt und Wirklichkeit") two years later, and published the volume in 1918. The second, extensively revised edition, from which the present translation was made, appeared in 1923. The concluding volume, "Perspectives of World-History" ("Welthistorische Perspektiven"), was published in 1922. The Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1906 (Vol. I) and 1928 (Vol. II).

For many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich. thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies - the collecting of pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Moliere, and taking occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Munich three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday.

读后感

【按语：快速地阅读了一趟，斯宾格勒的思想很遥远古旧，有种巫师或先知道派头；就哲学维度而言，斯宾格勒的理论不算严谨，康德的某些学说（尤其时间和空间）被他铸改后拿来随便用了，深深借鉴了黑格尔但几乎回避提及黑格尔； 整个框架又有些尼采的权力意志和永恒轮回的色彩，但...  

1.历史学家往往执着于“原因”、“结果”、“影响”、“意义”等，但他们却忽略了历史的“偶然性”。 历史不是总是经历“古代-中世纪-近代”的格局，这种格局划分的依据是什么呢？---进化论？ 以前一直被灌输一种观念：“历史是不断进步的。”但这里我想提出一个疑问：历...  

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。  

1920年2月，在慕尼黑展开了一场哲学史上极有价值的思想交锋。其中一方为当时的学院大师马克斯·韦伯，台下坐着无数韦伯的狂热拥趸。另一方的气势明显低落许多，一位寂寂无名的中学教师，只写出一本被指出许多谬误的历史哲学著作。面对韦伯咄咄逼人的攻势，中学教师毫无还手之力...  

用户评价

据说看完全书是浪费生命。于是没看完。就是pseudo scholarship + German nationalism

just a novel

just a novel

据说看完全书是浪费生命。于是没看完。就是pseudo scholarship + German nationalism

据说看完全书是浪费生命。于是没看完。就是pseudo scholarship + German nationalism