# The decline of the West

Author: Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936; Atkinson, Charles Francis, 1880-1960 [Translator]

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+decline+of+the+West+Spengler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

original; if, as is hoped, this translation is completed later by the issue of the second volume, a list of the necessary adjustments of page references will be issued with it. The reader will notice that translator’s foot-notes are scattered fairly freely over the pages of this edition. In most cases these have no pretensions to being critical annotations. They are merely meant to help the reader to follow up in more detail the points of fact which Spengler, with his “ständig präsentes Wissen,” sweeps along in his course. This being their object, they take the form, in the majority of cases, of references to appropriate articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica, which is the only single wo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Volume II are, for the present, necessarily to the pages of the German](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI. FAUSTIAN AND APOLLINIAN NATURE-KNOWLEDGE 375](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY. (2) THE DESTINY-IDEA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII. MUSIC AND PLASTIC. (1) THE ARTS OF FORM 217](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII. MUSIC AND PLASTIC. (2) ACT AND PORTRAIT 257](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (1) ON THE FORM OF THE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X. SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING. (2) BUDDHISM, STOICISM,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. THE MEANING OF NUMBERS 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. MAKROKOSMOS. (1) THE SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-PICTURE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI. MAKROKOSMOS. (2) APOLLINIAN, FAUSTIAN, AND MAGIAN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY. (1) PHYSIOGNOMIC AND](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-decline-of-the-west-72344/chapters/23/index.md)