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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Nikolai Danilevsky | | | |  Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - Lev Gumilev - Accusations of anti-SemitismGumilev did not extend this ethnological ecumenism, however, to the medieval Jews, who he regarded as a parasitic, international urban class that had dominated the Khazars who in turn had subjected the early East Slavs to the "Khazar Yoke". This last phrase he adapted from the traditional term "Tatar Yoke" for the Mongol domination of medieval Russia, a term Gumilev rejected for he did not regard the Mongol conquest as a necessarily negative event. In particular, and with virtually no support from primary sources, he asserted that the Radhan ...
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - Lev Gumilev - Life His parents were two prominent poets Nikolay Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova. They divorced when Lev was a baby, and his father was executed when he was just 9. During his mother's persecution in the 1930s, he was expelled from the Leningrad University and deported to gulags, where he would spend most of his youth, from 1938 until 1956. During a brief stint at large, he joined the Red Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin. In order to secure his release, Akhmatova was constrained to publish dithyrambs to Stalin, but this didn't help. Their relations remained strained, as Lev blamed his mother for the mi ...
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Overview Scholars now agree that the word "decline" more accurately renders Spengler's intended meaning, as opposed to the original German word "Untergang." Spengler would explain that he did not mean to describe a catastrophic occurrence, but rather a protracted fall—a twilight or sunset. "Untergang" can be interpreted in both manners, and after the Second World War, most critics and scholars chose to read it in the cataclysmic sense.
Spengler’s world-historical outlook is informed by two philosophers, Goethe and Nietzsche, the former mor ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Overview |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism Spengler’s view of the state is typical for a pre-WWI German conservative. He is anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and pro-authoritarian. He sees a leader’s responsibility as only to a minority that possesses the proper breeding for statesmanship, and which represents the rest of the nation in its historical struggle. Most states, he argues, have only a single social stratum which, constitutionally or otherwise, provides the political leading. That class represents the world-historical drive of a State, and within that stratum a ski ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Mathematics Spengler borrows frequently from mathematical philosophy. He holds that the mathematics and art of a civilization reveal its world-view. He notes that in Greek classical mathematics that there are only integers and no real concepts of limits or infinity. Therefore, without a concept of the infinite, all events of the distant past were viewed as equally distant, thus Alexander the Great had no problem declaring himself a descendant of a god. On the other hand, the western world—which has concepts of the zero, the infinite, and the limit—has a historical world-view which places a ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Mathematics |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Religion's role Spengler is neither wholly pro-religion nor anti-religion, but he does differentiate between manifestations of religion that appear within a civilization’s developmental cycle. He sees each culture as having an initial religious identity, which eventually results in a reformation-like period, followed by a period of rationalism, and finally entering a period of second religiousness that correlates with decline. Intellectual creativeness of a Culture's Late period begins after th ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Religion's role |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media is the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.
Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization In a footnote, Spengler describes the essential core of his philosophical approach toward history, culture, and civilization:
"Plato and Goethe stand for the philosophy of Becoming, Aristotle and Kant the philosophy of Being. [This saying of Goethe] must be regarded as the expression of a perfectly definite metaphysical doctrine. I would not have a single word changed of this: “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, simila ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Impact Spengler created a worldview that resonated with the post WW-1 German culture. His grim view of an inexorable doom for western civilization implied acceptance of fate, but also offered a sense of freedom from the past. His historical idea influenced artists and architects, who used it as a justification for abandoning the historic styles, now no longer valid for the new era. Mies van der Rohe is known to have accepted Spengler's view, and used it as a framework to guide his search for a new archit ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Impact |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - The meaning of History Spengler distinguishes between ahistorical peoples and peoples caught up in world-history. While he recognizes that all people are a part of history, he argues that only certain cultures imbue a wider sense of historical involvement. Thus some people see themselves as part of a grand historical design or tradition, while others view themselves in a self-contained manner. For the latter, there is no world-historical consciousness.
For Spengler, a world-historical view points toward the meaning of history itself, by breaking the histori ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - The meaning of History |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis The concept of pseudomorphosis is one that Spengler introduces as a way of explaining what are in his eyes half-developed or only partially manifested Cultures. Specifically pseudomorphosis entails an older alien Culture so deeply ingrained in a land that a young Culture can not achieve a pure expression of itself. This leads to the young soul being cast in the old moulds, in Spengler's words. Young feelings then stiffen in senile practices, and instead of expanding ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis |
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| | | | Nikolai Danilevsky: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Race and Culture Spengler attempts to tie race and Culture together, echoing ideas similar to those of Friedrich Ratzel and Rudolf Kjellén. These ideas, which were prevalent throughout German culture at the time, were likely the most significant elements for the National Socialists who would later claim Spengler as an intellectual forebear (despite Spengler's disdain for the Nazis—see: Spengler's The Hour of Decision).
Spengler also discusses the national unity of a Culture, a concept to be differentiated from a nation's population. Historic ...
See also:The Decline of the West, The Decline of the West - Background, The Decline of the West - Impact, The Decline of the West - Overview, The Decline of the West - Spengler's Cultures, The Decline of the West - Phases of rise and decline, The Decline of the West - The meaning of History, The Decline of the West - Culture and Civilization, The Decline of the West - Pseudomorphosis, The Decline of the West - Race and Culture, The Decline of the West - Religion's role, The Decline of the West - The State and Caesarism, The Decline of the West - Democracy media and money, The Decline of the West - Mathematics, The Decline of the West - Criticisms Read more here: » The Decline of the West: Encyclopedia II - The Decline of the West - Race and Culture |
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