Discussing Volume I Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler
Manage episode 421869633 series 3450018
In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume I of "The Decline Of The West," which, subtitled "Form And Actuality," was written by Oswald Spengler and published in 1918.
Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website:
VollrathPublishing.com
Also do not hesitate to reach out using the contact form found there.
章节
1. Spengler's Life – Education, Career, Fame, Criticism, And Politics (00:00:00)
2. A Very General Outline Of A Central Argument In "Decline Of The West" (00:05:58)
3. The Faustian Period (00:08:50)
4. Strengths And Weaknesses (00:10:14)
5. Beginning Of Passages – Spengler's Basic Questions And The "Ptolemaic" View Of History (00:19:05)
6. "World-History As A Picture Of Endless Formations And Transformations, Of The Marvelous Waxing And Waning Of Organic Forms" (00:24:34)
7. "Expression-Forms" And "Sound-Symbols" (00:25:18)
8. How Spengler Uses The Terms "Culture" And "Civilization" (00:27:53)
9. The Decline Of The West (00:30:36)
10. An Anecdote About How Spengler Came To This View Of History (00:33:03)
11. Euclidian Geometry And Infinitesimal Calculus As Representing The Classical And The Faustian (00:40:27)
12. "A Strange And Vast Tone-World" (00:41:43)
13. Pythagoras, Descartes, And Different Notions Of Number (00:43:16)
14. "The Moon, Too, Seems To Us Bigger Than Jupiter Or Saturn" (00:44:59)
15. Mathematicians As An Expression Of The Soul Of A Culture (00:47:08)
16. How Different Cultures Have Kept Historical Records (00:48:53)
17. The Death Of An Art (00:50:45)
18. Music And "Pure Space" (00:52:13)
19. Math, Music, The Violin, And Chamber Music (00:53:59)
20. Struggle As An Ethical Principle (00:56:04)
21. Closing (00:57:48)
64集单集