Discussing Volume I Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler

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In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume I of "The Decline Of The West," which, subtitled "Form And Actuality," was written by Oswald Spengler and published in 1918.
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Chapters

1. Spengler's Life – Education, Career, Fame, Criticism, And Politics (00:00:00)

2. A Very General Outline Of A Central Argument In "Decline Of The West" (00:05:58)

3. The Faustian Period (00:08:50)

4. Strengths And Weaknesses (00:10:14)

5. Beginning Of Passages – Spengler's Basic Questions And The "Ptolemaic" View Of History (00:19:05)

6. "World-History As A Picture Of Endless Formations And Transformations, Of The Marvelous Waxing And Waning Of Organic Forms" (00:24:34)

7. "Expression-Forms" And "Sound-Symbols" (00:25:18)

8. How Spengler Uses The Terms "Culture" And "Civilization" (00:27:53)

9. The Decline Of The West (00:30:36)

10. An Anecdote About How Spengler Came To This View Of History (00:33:03)

11. Euclidian Geometry And Infinitesimal Calculus As Representing The Classical And The Faustian (00:40:27)

12. "A Strange And Vast Tone-World" (00:41:43)

13. Pythagoras, Descartes, And Different Notions Of Number (00:43:16)

14. "The Moon, Too, Seems To Us Bigger Than Jupiter Or Saturn" (00:44:59)

15. Mathematicians As An Expression Of The Soul Of A Culture (00:47:08)

16. How Different Cultures Have Kept Historical Records (00:48:53)

17. The Death Of An Art (00:50:45)

18. Music And "Pure Space" (00:52:13)

19. Math, Music, The Violin, And Chamber Music (00:53:59)

20. Struggle As An Ethical Principle (00:56:04)

21. Closing (00:57:48)