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Fundamentalism
Tate, Allen | May 12, 1926 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "The Decline of the West, vol.1, "Form & Actuality," by Oswald Spengler. A new philosophy pretending in any sense to the philosophy of history must challenge at least a brief comparison with the system of German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. Oswald Spengler belongs with Hegel in his conviction that history is the world. But their difference, which is radical, may be summed up in a brief antithesis. Hegel portrayed his history, world as dialectic, while Spengler subsumes dialectic, along with painting, music, architecture, under the concept of history; all are expression forms in the quite homogeneous cultures in which they arise.

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BOOKS & reading; DECLINE of the West, The (Book); SPENGLER, Oswald; HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; HISTORY; DIALECTIC
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