Decline of the West

Volume 1
FORM AND ACTUALITY

Translator's Preface
Spengler's Preface to the Revised Edition
Spengler's Preface to the First Edition
I. Introduction
II. The Meaning of Numbers
III. The Problem of World History: 1: Physiognomic and Systematic
IV. The Problem of World History: 2: The Destiny Idea and the Causality Principle
V. Makrokosmos: 1: The Symbolism of the World Picture and the Problem of Space
VI. Makrokosmos: 2: Apollinian, Faustian, and Magian Soul
VII. Music and Plastic: 1: The Arts of Form
VIII. Music and Plastic: 2: Act and Portrait
IX. Soul Image and Life Feeling: 1: On the Form of the Soul
X. Soul Image and Life Feeling: 2: Buddhism, Stoicism, and Socialism
XI. Faustian and Apollinian Nature Knowledge
Volume 1 End Notes
Tables Illustrating the Comparative Morphology of History


Volume 2
PERSPECTIVES ON WORLD HISTORY

Translator's Preface
I. Origin and Landscape: (A) The Cosmic and the Microcosm
II. Origin and Landscape: (B) The Group of the Higher Cultures
III. Origin and Landscape: (C) The Relations Between the Cultures
IV. Cities and Peoples: (A) The Soul of the City
V. Cities and Peoples: (B) Peoples, Races, Tongues
VI. Cities and Peoples: (C) Primitives, Culture Peoples, Fellaheen
VII. Problems of the Arabian Culture: (A) Historic Pseudomorphoses
VIII. Problems of the Arabian Culture: (B) The Magian Soul
IX. Problems of the Arabian Culture: (C) Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell
X. The State: (A) The Problem of the Estates: Nobility and Priesthood
XI. The State: (B) State and History
XII. The State: (C) Philosophy of Politics
XIII. The Form World of Economic Life: (A) Money
XIV. The Form World of Economic Life: (B) The Machine
End Notes