Oswald Spengler (May 29th 1880 - May 8th 1936) is a German Philosophe , born with Blankenburg in the Harz the May 29th 1880. After academic works with Munich, Berlin and Market, he became mathematics professor with Hamburg. He quickly gave up teaching to devote himself to his major work: Decline of the Occident . Written before the First World War and published in its first part in 1918, it is worth a world-famous personality to him. In Germany, it became one of the headlights authors of the “preserving Révolution” which will be opposed to Germany Weimar.

the Decline of the Occident is a historical work of synthesis which gathers all at the same time the political economy and the Politique, the Science S and the Mathématiques, the visual arts and the Musique. This work arises as an application to the cultural phenomena of the morphological Méthode which Goethe for the natural science had worked out and which consists in the fact of deriving the phenomena starting from a " primitive phenomenon unique". It is to underline this influence that Spengler gave him for subtitle " Outline of a morphology of the history universelle". This work analyzes the Histoire while distinguishing from large the Culture S histories which, similar to biological beings, are born, grows, declines and dies. It distinguishes eight principal field crops and three principal attitudes suitable for the Occident: the Apollinian attitude, the magic attitude and the faustienne attitude. This synthesis wants to be cold and lucid. Spengler is also one of the last authors seized by the Romantisme of the crash of civilizations and the melancholy of the ends of the world.

It in addition develops a cyclic or “spherical” vision of the history where the latter does not have a direction. Each culture is determined by its heritage, its values and its feeling of the destiny. It inspired by many contemporary authors: Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Emil Cioran, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Raymond Aron and Arnold Joseph Toynbee, like Richard de Coudenhove-Kalergi.

Kampf zwischen Blut und Boden um die in Form einer verpflanzten Tier- und Menschenart. |Oswald Spengler|Decline of the Occident , 1922 '

The expression Blut und Boden (“blood and ground”) will be taken again by August Winnig then by Walther Darré in its book the race - News nobility of blood and the ground , and will give its name to the ideology '' Blut und Boden '', which will play a central role in the ideology Nazie.

Works

• Decline of the Occident (1918 - 1922)
• Prussianité and Socialisme (1920)
• the Man and the Technique (1933)
• decisive Years (1933)

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