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

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！  

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！  

斯宾格勒被认为是一个相对主义者，行动主义者，还是一个宿命论者 。法兰克福学派的重要学者阿多诺在写于斯宾格勒70岁诞辰之日的总结性批评文章«没落后的斯宾格勒»里有一个比喻 :“人们必须把«西方的没落» 看作一个百货商店。在那里，各种烤糊了的阅读心得在廉价处...  

一位高中老师，一个书虫靠着这本书成为了响当当的公众人物，而且精于印象管理，很会塑造和经营自己的公共形象。如果以印刷量，销量和反响热度来判断一本书成功与否，那这本书无疑是大大的Long-seller。Thomas Mann，Robert Musil 和 Heidegger 等都仔细研讨过它。 其实全书大部...  

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

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

节选本

just a novel