SPENGLER AND THE OVERMAN - MAN AND TECHNICS

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.

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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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_F_WV7EMhQ