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The Vital Imperative of Oswald Spengler's Philosophy of History

This investigation deals with the underlying motivation of Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West. Sources include the published and translated works of Spengler: books, essays, and selected letters. Contingent areas of exploration, arranged in separate chapters, are the philosophy of history, using the works of Dilthey and Herder; philosophy, using the concepts of Husserl's Phenomenology, Bergson's Time and Free Will, and Goethe's Conversations with Eckermann; the contemporary human potential psychology of Abraham Mazlow and Rollo May, and the contemporary philosophy of Alan Watts and Ortega y Gasset. R. G. Collingwood as critic of Spengler is dealt with. The conclusion is drawn that Spengler did not attempt a system of history except as a vehicle for expressing a directive to live fully in the eternal now.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663715
Date12 1900
CreatorsPilot, Diane Anderson
ContributorsLowry, Bullitt, 1936-, Owsley, Richard M.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 142 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Pilot, Diane Anderson, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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