The decline of the West, Volume 1 : $b Form and actualitySpengler, Oswald
Philosophy
The decline of the West, Volume 1 : $b Form and actuality
Spengler, Oswald
Civilization -- History
Kinds of human representation, p. 259. Portraiture, Contrition,
Syntax, p. 261. The heads of Classical statuary, p. 264.
Portrayal of children and women, p. 266. Hellenistic portraiture,
p. 269. The Baroque portrait, p. 272. Leonardo, Raphael and
Michelangelo overcome the Renaissance, p. 273. Victory of
Instrumental Music over Oil-Painting, corresponding to the
victory of Statuary over Fresco in the Classical, p. 282.
Impressionism, p. 285. Pergamum and Bayreuth, p. 291. The finale
of Art, p. 293.
CHAPTER IX. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (1) ON THE FORM OF THE
SOUL 297
Soul-image as function of World-image, p. 299. Psychology of a
counter-physics, p. 302. Apollinian, Magian and Faustian soul-
image, p. 305. The “Will” in Gothic space, p. 308. The “inner”
mythology, p. 312. Will and Character, p. 314. Classical posture
tragedy and Faustian character tragedy, p. 317. Symbolism of the
drama-image, p. 320. Day and Night Art, p. 324. Popular and
esoteric, p. 326. The astronomical image, p. 329. The
geographical horizon, p. 332.
CHAPTER X. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (2) BUDDHISM, STOICISM,
AND SOCIALISM 339
The Faustian morale purely dynamic, p. 341. Every Culture has a
form of morale proper to itself, p. 345. Posture-morale and will-
morale, p. 347. Buddha, Socrates, Rousseau as protagonists of the
dawning Civilizations, p. 351. Tragic and plebeian morale, p.
354. Return to Nature, Irreligion, Nihilism, p. 356. Ethical
Socialism, p. 361. Similarity of structure in the philosophical
history of every Culture, p. 364. The Civilized philosophy of the
West, p. 365.
CHAPTER XI. FAUSTIAN AND APOLLINIAN NATURE-KNOWLEDGE 375
Theory as Myth, p. 377. Every Natural Science depends upon a
preceding Religion, p. 391. Statics, Alchemy, Dynamics as the
theories of three Cultures, p. 382. The Atomic theory, p. 384.
The problem of motion insoluble, p. 388. The style of causal
process and experience, p. 391. The feeling of God and the
knowing of Nature, p. 392. The great Myth, p. 394. Classical,
Magian and Faustian _numina_, p. 397. Atheism, p. 408. Faustian
physics as a dogma of force, p. 411. Limits of its theoretical
(as distinct from its technical) development, p. 417. Self-
destruction of Dynamics, and invasion of historical ideas; theory
dissolves into a system of morphological relationships, p. 420.
INDEX _Following page_ 428
TABLES ILLUSTRATING THE COMPARATIVE _At end of volume_
MORPHOLOGY OF HISTORY
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