/lit/ - Literature

he's prescient, insightful, a great cultural historian, a polymath, and his Decline will probably change ur world-outlook

some author I haven't read and probably never will because his books aren't being published anymore and I refuse to read them in anglospeak

>>12257419
I have nothing against killing animals for sustenance, but there has always been something disturbing about uncivilized peoples hunting and eating primates. The similarity between the human and the monkey is uncanny. It is far too easy to empathize with their every movement, from the rotation of the arms to the flexing of the fingers to the turning of their heads and blinking of their eyes. Unlike fish and insects and birds and small mammals, where the evolutionary tree is enough divided to provide a separation of both shape and intellect, the ape is shockingly close and I've been unable to stop from arising within me an oddly poignant affinity upon seeing them, despite knowing how very simple they truly are.

I'll go to bed now.

>>12257481
dumb comment. You can easily find a pdf or epub online in the original german or almsot any european language with a few clicks.

It is still being published and printed in Germany.

>>12257606
>english
>german
On parle français ici Monsieur

>>12257428
fpbp

>>12257695
gallimard published it just go to a used book store

>>12257540
Well humans kill other humans all the time and we're even closer i guess

>In the spring of 1936 (shortly before his death), he prophetically remarked in a letter to Reichsleiter Hans Frank that "in ten years, the German Reich will probably no longer exist"

how did he do it lads

>>12257419
Nobody answered me yet

>>12258113
It is said that men, at their death beds, possess the most of prophetic abilities.

>>12258102
But we don't eat them .

>>12258189
which one of the in-game Elder Scrolls books did you read that in?

>>12258197
The Greeks

>>12258113
>how did he do it lads

To be fair, he also did some predictions which didn't come true, like that the US would break up along ethno-racial lines following the Great Depression.

However, that changes when you consider that race-related issues have been at the centre of American politics for about 60 years now...

So yeah, the guy didn't fuck around. Totally one of my favorite german authors (along with his buddy Jünger)

>>12258231
Incredible

>>12258102
>>12257540

Replace all instances of ape with negro, anons.

>>12257419
old cracka does some armchair history about "muh cycles muthafucka" and comes to the conclusion that the prideful thing to do is to wallow in cynical pessimism, believing all is lost

>>12258995
Subject too obscure to be bait so how the fuck can you so overtly misread his philosophy?

Spengler is a fatalist. Spengler is a pessimist. Spengler is not a fucking nihilist. He's the farthest thing from a nihilist. Mongrels like you probably read Nietzsche and think he's a nihilist too. But Spengler is completely explicit about it too. One of the central premises of his entire philosophy of history, man, and life, is that meaning is to be found in the ultimately futile battle against death and Nature.The high cultures themselves arose out of a fear of death -- a fear which they overcome with expressions of transcendent meaning.

>Faced as we are with this destiny, there is only one world-outlook that is worthy of us, that which has already been mentioned as the Choice of Achilles -- better a short life, full of deeds and glory, than a long life without content.

>We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

bump for Spengler thread. FYI, the Kissinger thesis has been up on Libgen

>>12258196
We would if it didn't give you that nasty disease.

>>12259116
> say Spengler is a pessmimist
> agree
> chimpout anyway

>>12257419
Bump

>>12259629
>Kissinger thesis
What is that and has it got to do with Spengler ?

>>12261417
lurk moar

>>12257481
As far as i know, its not published in anglo either, just some shitty abridged editions.

>>12261494
Yes it is, Knopf edition

>>12261496
That has not been printed since 1962?

>>12261512
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=spengler&cm_sp=SearchFwi-_-SRP-_-Results&kn=knopf&sortby=17&tn=decline

https://archive.org/details/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler/page/n1

>>12261514
Ordered, thank you.

>>12261514
Based anon, I've low-key been looking for a MOBI of that.

>>12257419
Is this a good edition ?

>>12261691
Forgot the image

>>12261694
I would try to contact the seller or otherwise find images of it online (maybe by contacting another seller with the same version) before buying... Better that than taking a chance with an ugly or cheap or fake edition. Actually when I google that image I get "Kindle edition" so that might just be a placeholder. Be careful. Make sure you see what you're getting.

The old knopf editions referenced above are pretty nice. I have this big blue 2-in-1 volume from them which still has the huge multi-page foldout tables (pic related), that I was lucky enough to get at Powell's in Chicago for $5.

>>12261704
Thank you, I took a peak inside and it says

A well-formatted version based on the Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 (vol 1) & 1928 (vol 2) editions, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson.

>>12261704
Thank you, I took a peek inside and it says

A well-formatted version based on the Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 (vol 1) & 1928 (vol 2) editions, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson.

>>12261417
Kissinger did his 300 page grad thesis on Spengler

>>12261989
Cool, what's it called ?

>>12261995
Dragonball Z

>>12262009
We have a comedian here

>>12259629
got the name of the thesis or a link, pal?

>>12257419
Why does this image depress me?

>>12262189
Because fratricide is always a horrible thing

>>12262167
Found it The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant.
It's on Library Genesis

>>12257540
If your empathy is based on aesthetics, you will be first on my platform. Go watch Bambi you child, and stay away from ethics. There are actual intelligent people here trying to figure out what to do with your kind while they still breath.

>>12262744
Mean asshole

>>12262744
B A S E D

>>12262237
Haha black ppl are monkeys amirite

>>12264246
Yes you are right. Unless you were sarcastic, in which case you should fuck off back to whatever shithole you came from, most likely Plebbit.

>>12264258
Um sweetie, this isn't 4chan.

>>12257540
you're not as good a writer as you think you are anon