THE DECLINE OF THE WEST (414 pp.) —Oswald Spongier—abridged by Helmut Werner—Knopf ($6.95). No gloomier metaphor was ever coined to lend a semblance of shape to man’s long struggle through ...

OSWALD SPENGLER’S Decline of the West was an important contribution to the philosophy of history. It was a remarkable achievement to produce a ponderous two-volume work which it was a strenuous mental ...

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST—Vol. II—Perspectives of World History—Oswald Spengler—Translated from the German by Charles Francis Atkinson—Knopf ($7.50). Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their ...

MAN AND TECHNICS — Oswald Spengler — Knopf ($2). After the heavy barrage laid down by The Decline of the West, Philosopher Spengler, cannonader of despair, now uses a single big gun to finish off what ...

OSWALD SPENGLER called money “a form of thought.” Tolstoy condemned it as “a new form of slavery.” While Thoreau figured that “the more money, the less virtue,” Schopenhauer argued that “money alone ...