The late German historian considers all forms and movements of human affairs as he predicts the inevitable eclipse of Western civilization, in an abridged edition of the classic study, first published more than eighty years ago. Reprint. PREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION
xiii
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
xxi
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
xxiii
EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE ABRIDGED EDITION
xxvii
I INTRODUCTION
3(38)
The meaning of History for the individual
7(1)
Antiquity and India: unhistorical
7(2)
Egyptian and Western man: historical
9(3)
What is World-History?
12(6)
Historical relativity
18(2)
The historical eye
20(1)
One-sided interpretations of the picture of Classical history
21(3)
The problem of "Civilization"
24(3)
The conclusion?Imperialism
27(3)
Significance of the main theme
30(1)
The relation of a morphology of World-History to religion
31(3)
The final task
34(2)
The origin of this book
36(5)
II THE MEANING OF NUMBERS
41(29)
Number as the sign of completed demarcation
42(2)
Every Culture has its own mathematic
44(2)
Classical numbers as magnitude
46(4)
The world according to Aristarchus. Diophantus and the Magian mathematic
50(4)
Western mathematic as function
54(4)
Dread and longing
58(2)
Geometry and arithmetic
60(4)
The Classical limit-problem and the liberation from the visual
64(6)
III THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY
70(17)
Physiognomic and Systematic
70(1)
Cultures as organisms
71(4)
Style, tempo, duration, synchronism
75(1)
The idea of Destiny and the principle of Causality
76(1)
The problem of Time
77(2)
Destiny and Incident
79(4)
Is there a science of History?
83(4)
IV MAKROKOSMOS: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-PICTURE AND THE SPACE-PROBLEM
87(10)
Macrocosm?the sum total of all symbols in relation to one soul
87(1)
Space and death
88(2)
Spatial depth as "time become rigid." The prime symbol
90(4)
The Classical and the Western prime symbol
94(3)
V MAKROKOSMOS: APOLLINIAN, FAUSTIAN AND MAGIAN SOUL
97(18)
Architecture and divinities
97(3)
The Egyptian and the Chinese prime symbol
100(2)
Imitation and ornament
102(3)
The architecture of the window
105(2)
The great style. The history of style as an organism
107(3)
History of the Arabian style
110(5)
VI MUSIC AND PLASTIC: THE ARTS. OF FORM
115(20)
Arts as the symbol of the higher order
115(2)
Apollinian and Faustian art
117(4)
The Renaissance regarded as an anti-Gothic (anti-musical) movement
121(4)
Character of the Baroque
125(3)
Symbolism of the colours
128(2)
Gold background and studio-brown
130(3)
Patina
133(2)
VII MUSIC AND PLASTIC: ACT AND. PORTRAIT
135(24)
Varieties of human portraiture
135(6)
Hellenistic portraiture
141(1)
Baroque portraiture
142(1)
Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo?as vanquishers of the Renaissance
143(6)
The victory of instrumental music in 1670 and a Classical parallel
149(3)
Impressionism
152(3)
Pergamum and Bayreuth: The end of Art
155(4)
VIII SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING: ON THE FORM OF THE SOUL
159(17)
The Soul-image, a function of the World-image
159(1)
The Gothic will
160(3)
The inner mythology
163(2)
Classical behaviour-drama and Faustian character-drama
165(4)
Symbolism of the drama
169(2)
The art of the day and of the night
171(1)
Popular and esoteric character. The image of astronomy. The geographical horizon
172(2)
The Will to Power
174(2)
IX SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING: BUDDHISM, STOICISM, SOCIALISM
176(12)
Every Culture possesses its own ethic
176(2)
Faustian morale
178(3)
The morale of dawning "Civilization"
181(2)
Irreligion
183(2)
Ethical Socialism
185(3)
X FAUSTIAN AND APPOLLINIAN NATURE- KNOWLEDGE
188(38)
Every science is dependent upon a religion
188(4)
The atomic theory
192(1)
The problem of motion
193(4)
The interpretation of "Experience"
197(2)
The "God-feeling" and Nature
199(2)
The great myth. Faustian, Classical, Magian numina
201(5)
Atheism
206(3)
Faustian physics as the dogma of farce
209(3)
The limits of further theoretical?not technical?development
212(4)
The self-destruction of dynamic physics; historical ideas appear
216(4)
The last stage. Dissolution in a system of morphological relationships
220(6)
XI ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE: THE COSMIC AND THE MICROCOSM
226(4)
XII ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE: THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES
230(15)
XIII CITIES AND PEOPLES
245(23)
The two souls
245(7)
Form-languages of "Civilization"
252(2)
Race is Style
254(10)
People and nation
264(4)
XIV PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: HISTORIC PSEUDOMORPHOSES
268(31)
The Idea
268(2)
The Russian pseudomorphosis
270(5)
The period of Arabian feudalism
275(2)
Syncretism
277(4)
Jews, Chaldeans and Persians of the "pre-Culture"
281(4)
Jesus
285(4)
The teaching of Jesus. Paul
289(5)
John, Marion
294(2)
The heathen and Christian cult-Churches
296(3)
XV PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: THE MAGIAN SOUL
299(20)
The dualism of the World-Cavern
299(2)
"World-time." Grace
301(3)
The Consensus
304(1)
The Word as substance
305(4)
The group of the Magian religions
309(3)
The religions of Magian Christianity. The end of theology
312(7)
XVI PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: PYTHAGORAS, MOHAMMED, CROMWELL
319(35)
The nature of religion; morality as sacrifice
319(4)
Morphology of religious history
323(1)
Egypt and the Ancient World
324(6)
The Gothic
330(7)
Reformation
337(2)
Science. Puritanism
339(4)
Rationalism
343(2)
The Second Religiousness
345(3)
Judaism
348(6)
XVII THE STATE: THE PROBLEM OF THE ESTATES
354(6)
Man and Woman
354(2)
Race. Blood
356(4)
XVIII STATE AND HISTORY
360(22)
The vesting of authority
360(2)
The bourgeoisie
362(8)
Tradition versus theory
370(5)
The period of the Contending States
375(3)
Caesarism
378(4)
XIX PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS
382(16)
The statesman
382(7)
Political theory
389(2)
The fate of democracy
391(2)
The Press
393(5)
XX THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE: MONEY
398(11)
Economic life
398(1)
Economics and politics
399(4)
Thinking in terms of goods and in terms of money
403(4)
Classical and Western money-thought
407(1)
Money and work
408(1)
XXI THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE: THE MACHINE
409
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