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Description. 1. By Maria Chehonadskih: "Proletkult is a contraction of Proletarian Culture and Enlightenment Organisations. It was a mass organisation of scientific, educational and art societies for the proletariat, existing from 1917 to 1932. Proletkult was established by Bogdanov and Lunacharskii after the February Revolution in 1917.
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From Encyclopedia.com : "Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German universal historian, was born in Blankenburg, in the Harz mountains. Of Protestant parentage, he was descended on his father’s side from a line of mining engineers; his mother’s family was artistically inclined. Both inheritances came together in Spengler—in his scientific interests on th...
" the 'influence' of Decline on the literature of the 20th century can be felt far and wide: D.H. Lawrence, Carl Jung and Henry Miller all expressed their debt to the book, with the later expressing regret that he didn't write certain passages of it himself; T.S Eliot cites the book as a major influence on his The Waste Land; Scott Fitzgerald said ...
WORKS BY SPENGLER: (1918-1922) 1926-1928 The Decline of the West. 2 vols. Authorized translation with notes by Charles F. Atkinson. New York: Knopf. → Volume 1: Form and Actuality. Volume 2: Perspectives of World History. First published as Der Untergang des Abendlandes. (1920) 1942 Preussentum und Sozialismus. Munich: Beck. → Reprinted in Spengler...
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"That Oswald Spengler, one of the most famous philosophers of historyin the twentieth century, profoundly changed his ideas on world historyafter publishing his major work, The Decline of the West,1 is virtuallyunknown to scholars contributing to the literature in English on histhought.2 Yet it is not unheard of for speculative philosophers of historyto experience a sea change in how they formulate their bold answersto the riddle of history. Indeed, Spengler's renowned successor, ArnoldToynbe...
Henry Kissinger on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant
Excerpted from the website, 'Madness and Civilization', which paraphrases the content of the Honor's Thesis by Kissinger: "Kissinger adopts a novel methodology by trying to convey the essence of each author's work in that individual's own style. (This is especially significant in the section on Spengler because of the latter's poetic and metaphysical passages.) Kissinger argues that purely analytical criticism of Spengler and, to some extent Toynbee, "falsifies the real essence of [their] phi...
“Organic” View of History
by Annie Pfeifer (Modernist Lab): "In his self-described “organic” theory of history, Spengler labels “cultures as organisms,” a concept which he derives from Goethe’s idea of “living nature” . Living nature encapsulates the “the idea of becoming” from a standpoint of “the phenomenal world in motion,” which is best studied through “erfühlen” or “living into” rather than by dissection. He writes, “I see world-history as a picture of endless formations and transformations, of the marvelous waxi...
Jane Dennet Thorpe and Javier Ruiz: "Onawi is a new non-profit organisation that aims to directly contribute to a just transition towards climate change mitigation by developing a horizontal technology transfer model based on Open Source Co-operative Innovation. Onawi is creating a freely accessible library of renewable energy technologies.
It was in this climate that Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1991 [1918–1922]) appeared, which goes a long way toward explaining its enormous impact and popularity in the immediate postwar period (Hughes 1952: 89–97).
He used the concept of polycentricity as a particularly well-suited tool for addressing the well-known socialist calculation problem (Lange 1938; Mises 1922). His arguments about the impossibility of economic calculation in a socialist system were closely related to Hayek’s, yet they also benefited from the more general perspective provided by the concept of polycentricity.
That is how the universe complexifies through cosmic evolution. So Morgan stated in 1922, later published in his work Emergent Evolution, that just what emerges is precisely “some new kind of relation…at each ascending step.” Such a theory of new orders of
Publishers' Summary. Cyberchiefs. Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes: “People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralized production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O’Neil focuses on the regulation of these working relationships.
