Nietzsche and Neo-Kantian historiography: points of contact

Jensen, Anthony K.

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“…For many readers, who approach Spengler specifically for his views on the cyclical nature of history, it is by no means apparent how many of his obscure philosophical sections relate to the grand narrative of Decline . However, if one skips the ‘metaphysics’, which Mazlish (1966: 344) describes as ‘largely a farrago of pretentious and contradictory nonsense’, and sticks to the detailed historical sections, everything seems to make a lot more sense. And this, I argue, is what most commentators on Decline tend to do.…”

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“…Thus, in addition to Spengler's complicated engagement with Kant , a key factor in the neglect of his role in Spengler's philosophy in secondary literature is the fact that Spengler's Kant bears only a family resemblance to what most scholars would recognise as Kant's philosophy. Due to the fact that Spengler holds that the perception of Time and Space is different for the people of different cultures, Mazlish (1966: 328) states that ‘Spengler's vision is not Kantian’. Costello, similarly, argues against a Kantian influence, saying that ‘Spengler held, contrary to Kant, that the mental concept for space was environmentally and culturally determined and not an a priori pattern in the mind’ (Costello, 1993: 57).…”

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Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history

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2023

History of the Human Sciences

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Most commentators on Spengler's philosophy tend to focus on the details of his cyclical theory of world-history, according to which history should be understood in terms of the rise and fall of great cultures. I argue that Spengler's philosophy of history is itself an expression of his primary concern with philosophical analysis of the structures of human consciousness, and that an awareness of Spengler's account of the existential structures of subjective consciousness enables one to grasp the reasoning behind some of the key features of his philosophy of history, such as his cultural isolation hypothesis and critique of Eurocentric historiography. I further argue that the way to access Spengler's theory of consciousness, and the ways in which it informs his philosophy of history, is via his critical engagement with the Kant character that recurs in the first volume of The Decline of the West.

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confidence: 99%