Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Spengler,Oswald

ISBN 10: 0906879299 / ISBN 13: 9780906879290

Editore: Historical Review Press UK, 2006

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Unread and unopened! ISBN: 0-906879-29-9. 73pp, plus ads. Perfect binding. Written over seventy years ago Man and Technics is a tireless, juicy polemic presenting a merciless case for social pessimism. Spengler blasts away at utopianism and political optimism, using a fierce and iconoclastic stream of language. Colourful insights leap off the page at the reader, and the underlying logic, while questionable in places, is based on a clear vision of the the worldlings of society. The fundamental premise of the book is that the world is governed by natural forces, forces in man and nature, not genteel political and religious creeds. All in all, Man and Technics is the work of an astute intellect, keen to the true operation of the universe It contains startling and refreshing ideas guaranteed to stimulate your thinking, if not re-arrange your whole world-view. From book:OSWALD SPENGLER is one of the most important intellectuals of the Twentieth Century and his major work, The Decline of the West, a massive effort which ran to over 1,000 pages and two volumes, had sold 100,000 copies by 1927.Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 and he was an isolated and somewhat incorrigible figure; a retired schoolteacher who endured penury in order to complete his massive work; the magnum opus to which he devoted his life. He once described himself as a lone scribbler, a man who peered into cultures from the outside - an analyst of meta-cultural phenomena - a man who dissected the rise, decline and fall of various civilizations - all of which he anatomised in the manner of plants, whose botanical propensities he classified à la Goethe. In a sense, therefore, he was a taxonomist of culture; a man who 'worked over' cultures, who tagged, docketed and examined them like specimens on the laboratory bench.Oswald Spengler always believed that the inner reasons for Western collapse could be brought to the surface and this was something which struck a particular chord at the end of the Great War. When European civilization was prostrate and exhausted - wracked with pain and dissolution, as the abortive German revolution began which led to the collapse of the Prussian monarchy and its replacement with Weimar, a nominally democratic republic which rested on the guns of the Freikorps who had put down the Communists.

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• Titolo: Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
• Editore: Historical Review Press UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0906879299
• ISBN 13: 9780906879290
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: As New
• Peso: 33 once
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OSWALD SPENGLER (1880-1936) was a German philosopher born in Blankensburg and educated at the universities of Halle, Munich, and Berlin. On the basis of his extensive studies in mathematics, science, history, philosophy, and art he formulated a philosophical system that offered an explanation of the history of human culture. In his most important work "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" (Decline of the West), Spengler attempted to prove that each individual culture possesses a unique "soul," or style of art and thought, and that all cultures pass through a life cycle of growth and decay comparable to the biological cycle of a living organism. In his analysis of the history of Western Europe, Spengler argued that the culture of Europe had entered the final stage of its existence which was to be chiefly a period of technological and political expansion. Spengler's seminal ideas have influenced all historians since. This newly-printed volume is a very readable and succinct precis of the great historian's massive classic "The Decline of the West." Eschewing all sentimentality, Spengler relies on his signature realism, tough thinking and unique brilliance to show just where we have been in the 20th century and where we are going in the 21st. Every page of this masterpiece glistens with ideas and insights, if you think you are up to it!