Oswald Spengler was a leading thinker in the German Right during the Interwar Period (1918-1939) as well as among the most influential Conservative Revolutionaries in the Weimar Republic.

I discuss his book, Man and Technics, a more concise version of his Magnus Opus, Decline of the West. His Philosophy deals with the Faustian and Promethean Nature of the West tied to technical progress and expansion.

Timestamps –

0:00 Background – Oswald Spengler
2:05 I. Technics as the Tactics of Living
25:14 II. Herbivores and Beasts of Prey
42:39 III. The Origin of Man: Hand and Tool
51:09 IV. The Second Stage: Speech and Enterprise
1:05:09 V. The Last Act: Rise and End of the Machine Culture

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