The Analemma of History: A Spenglerian Philosophy of Universal History
Speculative philosophy of history, cultural morphology, Big History, semiotics, and eschatology
Spenglerian Musings
Substack on Oswald Spengler's philosophy of history, and speculative philosophy of history.
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Herder, Spengler, and the Goethean Paradigm
The following is a short essay I had written almost a year ago when tracing the roots of Spengler’s own philosophy, which had ultimately led me to the works of Herder.
Spenglerian Optimism: American Cosmists
Paleo-Futurism's techno-frontiersman
Spenglerian Optimism: A Reappraisal
The longue durée nature of Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West (1917) cannot be overstated, almost a century after his magnum opus has been published it still stands in the face of its critics, who can neither refute it, nor accept it.
Spenglerian Optimism: The Case of Reactionary Hispanidad
Eric Aaron Castro argues that an extension of Faustian civilization is possible only through an affirmation of the Spanish spirit, which he described as possessing a “Faustian drive fused with eschatological yearning and honor-driven fatalism”.
Spenglerian Optimism: The Space Race, 20th Century Pop Culture, and the Rise of the American Civilization
In this specific contribution to the Spenglerian Optimism series Elliot “Aspen” Smith explores the possibility of a new high culture emerging from the Southwestern American region — the Aridoamerican plane.
Oswald Spengler on Islam: Spiritual 'We' Over the Spiritual 'I'
The following is an excerpt of an essay on Islamic civilization within Oswald Spengler’s philosophy of history published with Qawwam Magazine.
The Historical Dimension of the Popper-Kuhn Debate
This specific short piece is an introduction to some of my arguments concerning the implicit philosophies of history of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, and how the debate between the two had to a degree shaped the reception of speculative philosophies of history in modern Western thought.
The Middle East: Civilizational Dissonance
The following excerpt was posted on my X profile a while ago, I thought I would share it here after the current developments taking place in the Middle East, and the rest of the world.
Pan-Turkic Nationalism: Corrosive Irredentism around the Neo-Silk Road
I posted this on X a while ago, and thought I would share it here, primarily because it has been a growing topic of discussion recently.