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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- THE POLITICAL HORIZON -- Germany is not an island -- Dread of reality -- Rationalism and Romanticism -- The deceptive peace, 1871-1914 -- Greatness of the age -- WORLD WARS AND WORLD POWERS -- The age of world wars -- Between past and future forms of power, Metternich -- The first world war threatened from 1878 -- 1918 decided nothing -- End of " Europe," -- Decline of the dignity of the State from the Congress of Vienna -- Democratic nationalism -- Economics mightier than politics: germ of the economic crisis -- Transformation of armies and strategic ideas -- Navies and colonies -- Economic warfare -- New powers -- Russia once more Asiatic -- Japan -- The United States and revolution -- England -- France -- Standing out of world politics does not protect against their consequences, -- THE WHITE WORLD-REVOLUTION -- The " revolution from below," -- Age of the Gracchi in Rome -- Not economic, but urban: dissolution of society -- Society as order of rank -- Differences, not contrasts -- Underworld of great cities: " noble " and " vulgar," -- Goal of the Revolution: the levelling of society. Democracy = Bolshevism -- Property, luxury, wealth -- Class war beginsabout 1770 -- In England -- The united movement from Liberalism to Bolshevism -- Mobilization of the" working class 99 from 1840. " Dictatorship of the proletariat," -- Professional agitators -- Bolshevism not Russian -- Tolerance of Liberal society -- Cult ofthe " worker," -- Type of the demagogue -- Church andclass war, Communism and religion -- Economic egoism asthe moral of class war -- Age of revolutionary theory, 1750-1850. National economy from 1770 onward belongs to it -- Negative ideal of class war: from 1770, destruction ofthe order of rank -- from 1840, of the economic order

Verlagsinfo: Spenglers Idee vom Untergang des Abendlandes markiert eine Wende in der Geschichtsphilosophie. Gegen die Vorstellung eines linearen Voranschreitens der Geschichte (Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit) setzt er den Gedanken eines zyklischen Werdens und Vergehens. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert er alle grossen Kulturen und skizziert den Plan einer Weltgeschichte, der auch Voraussagen über die Zukunft gestattet. Spenglers Opus Magnum wurde von Anfang an begeistert und kritisch gelesen und sorgt seit fast 100 Jahren für Kontroversen. Zuletzt bezog sich Samuel P. Huntington in "Kampf der Kulturen" auf Spengler

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- I. TECHNICS AS THE TACTICS OF LIVING -- II. HERBIVORES AND BEASTS OF PREY -- III. THE ORIGIN OF MAN: HAND AND TOOL -- IV. THE SECOND STAGE: SPEECH AND ENTERPRISE -- V. THE LAST ACT: RISE AND END OF THE MACHINE CULTURE