The Decline of the West

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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。

读后感

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...  

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...  

西方的没落 这本书我在看前言，中间跳着读了一点。 作者认为世界有种统一思想，统一的思想可以贯穿人类生活的各种方面。文化也是有形体的，可以生长，死亡。文化这个词内涵包括：建筑，美术，绘画，商业，政治，道德，社会精英，生产方式，地理等的社火生活所有方面。一种...  

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。  

用户评价

节选本

just a novel

just a novel

节选本

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