Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Translation of: Der Untergang des Abendlandes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Form and actuality: Introduction -- The meaning of numbers -- The problem of World-History. Physiognomic and systematic; The Destiny-idea and the Causality-principle -- Makrokosmos. The Symbolism of the World-Picture and the Problem of space; Appolinian, Faustian and Magian Soul -- Music and Plastic: The Arts of Form; Act and Portrait -- Soul-image and Life-feeling: On the for of the Soul; Buddhism, Stoicism and socialism -- Faustian and Apollinian Nature-knowledge
-- v. 2. Perspectives of world-history: Origin and Landscape: The Cosmic and the Microcosm; The Group of the Higher cultures; The relations between the cultures -- Cities and peoples: The soul of the City; Peoples, Races, Tongues; Primitives, Culture-Peoples, Fellaheen -- Problems of the Arabian Culture: Historic Pseudomorhoses; The Magian Soul; Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell -- The State: The Problem of the Estates: Nobility and Priesthood; State and History; Philosophy of Politics -- The Form-world of Economic Life: Money; The Machine