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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663715 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Pilot, Diane Anderson |
| Contributors | Lowry, Bullitt, 1936-, Owsley, Richard M. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 142 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Pilot, Diane Anderson, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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