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“Brave Pessimism”: The Clash of Caesarism and Democracy within Spengler’s Philosophy of History

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Naif Al Bidh

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<jats:p>In The Hour of Decision and The Decline of the West, Spengler argued that, around the turn of the third millennium, the Western (Faustian) culture would experience the formation of Caesarism. This impending appearance of force politics occurs alongside the collapse of democracy – which Spengler merely views as a tool utilized by the forces of money and cosmopolitanism. In the second volume of his magnum opus, Spengler provides us with a critique of Western forms of journalism and the political press, foreseeing the rise of contemporary hyper commercialism. Spengler envisioned a battle between what he termed “the forces of dictatorial money-economics” and the political will-to-order of the emerging Caesarism, where the latter conquers the realm of the former. The “world-cities” are the embodiment of the forces of dictatorial money, these cosmopolitan strongholds attempting to destroy the motherland of the respective culture. Spengler claimed that the soil of the motherland creates man and his respective culture; ironically, man attempts to exploit nature and enslave it, only to be enslaved by a microcosm of his own creation – money, the cosmopolitan cities, and technics. Thus, this paper will briefly shed light on the arguments concerning the second religiousness in the West and the existential threat of Faustian (Western) technics that Spengler provides in Man and Technics, as well as the emerging hatred towards money, machine, and the city – which accompanies the forthcoming Caesarism and the ecological crisis as a result of man’s war against nature.</jats:p>

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10.22618/tp.pjcv.20237.1.150.004

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