Category Archives: Spengler

Spengler’s Logic of History

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Lee

Oswald Spengler tells us that he’s trying something new, a kind of historical study that he calls “predetermining history”: he’s going to use an historian’s methods in order to tell us something of what is going to happen. History is … Continue reading →

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Spengler and Destiny

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Lee

I’ve been reading Oswald Spengler again, and what he writes about destiny. If you’re going to discover your destiny – the destiny of your culture, of your family, or your own personal destiny – you need to get out of … Continue reading →

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Imagination and Evaluation in History: Spengler and Adorno

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Lee

Oswald Spengler: “Once again, therefore, there was an act like the act of Copernicus to be accomplished, an act of emancipation from the evident present in the name of infinity. This the Western soul achieved in the domain of Nature … Continue reading →

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A Note on Spengler and Historical Perspective

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Lee

The Western historian writes from her own “standpoint.” But she knows she must be objective, which means opening her eyes to the infinite differences and infinite distances of history, freeing herself as far as she can from the limitations of … Continue reading →

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Stone and Space

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Lee

Being “The worked stone . . . has considered limits and measured form; what it is is what it has become under the sculptor’s chisel.” The statue wants nothing, it rests upon the ground, complete and beautiful. It is what … Continue reading →

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