Word: spenglerism
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find in a decline. He has equipped himself to serve the Western World as one of its philosophers by visiting practically all the world. The publication of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher last year gained him his first wide hearing outside of Germany, being an account...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...
Under the leadership of Dr. Otto Gogan formerly of Vienna, Rudolph Erbsloch, banker: Otto Spengler, representing German authors in America; Professor A. Busse and Professor Camillo von Kienze, former Harvard men, an organization was formed last year on the accasion of Professor Kuno Francke's seventieth birthday to commemorate the service this founder of the Germanic Museum tendered to the cause of German...