Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West. An abridged edition by
Helmut Werner. English abridged edition prepared by Arthur Helps
from the translation by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York:
oxford University Press c199 [1926, 1928, 1932]. xxxx,415, xvix
Conclusion [415]
For us, however, whom a Destiny has placed in this culture and at
this moment of its development--the moment when money is
celebrating its last victories, and the Caesarism that is to
succeed approaches with quiet, firm step--our direction, willed
and obligatory at once, is set for us within narrow limits, and
on any other terms life is not worth the living. We have not the
freedom to reach to this or to that, but the freedom to do th
necessary or to do nothing. And a task that historic necessity
has set will be accomplished with the individual or
against him.
Sections from Spengler, The Decline of the West:
Introduction: Civilization
Introduction: Imperialism
Architecture and Divinities
Imitation and Ornament
The History of Style as an Organism
Arts as Symbol of the Higher Order
Popular and Esoteric
Will to Power
Impressionism
Morale of Dawning Civilizations
The History of Style as an Organism
Pergamum and Bayreuth: the End of Art
Classical Behaviour Drama and Faustian Character Drama
Every Culture Possesses its own Ethic
Every Science is Dependent upon Religion
Atheism
Origin and Landscape: the Group of the Higher Cultures
Cities
Reformation
Science
Second Religiousness
The State
Politics
Conclusion
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