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Oswald Spengler

	Man and technics
		As once the microcosm Man against Nature, so now the microcosm Machine is revolting against Nordic Man. The lord of the World is becoming the slave of the Machine, which is forcing him — forcing us all, whether we are aware of it or not — to follow its course.
		Technics has become as esoteric as the higher mathematics which it uses, while physical theory has refined its intellectual abstractions from phenomena to such a pitch that (without clearly perceiving the fact) it has reached the pure foundations of human knowing.
		Already in many tropical regions the fl or brown man with his primitive ways of working is a dangerous competitor to the modern plantation-technique of the white.
	www.geocities.com /reocork/man.htm (2842 words)

	Amazon.com: Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life: Books: Oswald Spengler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life by Oswald Spengler
		I found _Man and Technics_ to be a wierd philosophic exposition of the origins of humanity and the organic process of birth, flowering, decay and death that human Cultures inevitably face.
		Spengler wrote "Man and Technics" as a short and accessible supplement to his 'magnum opus', "The Decline of the West".
	www.amazon.com /Man-Technics-Contribution-Philosophy-Life/dp/0898759838 (1362 words)

	Our Doom
		But man, whose thought is emancipated from the fetters of here and now, yesterday and tomorrow, boldly investigates the "once" of past and future, and it depends on the depth or shallowness of his nature whether he triumphs over the fear of the end or not.
		Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living.
		The history of man, in comparison with that of the plant and animal worlds on this planet -- not to mention the lifetimes prevailing in the star world -- is brief indeed.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /doom.htm (737 words)

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		Whether the problem of the little three-letter words, man and men, and a combination of man with kind in mankind or the obliteration of both in the six-letter word people is treated lightly or gravely today, the problem is really fundamental for precision in thought and its communication.
		To be sure, any man has a right to confine his attention entirely to the doings of men in political history if he Iets his purpose be known in the title of his book or of the series in which it appears.
		Man, set down in the earthly environment, confronts a compelling truth: that the first task of life is to live...
	www.marxists.org /archive/beard/woman-force/ch03.htm (8780 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: On Possible Implications of a Global Model of Development: Current Trends in Sociological ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The minor work Man and Technics which was published in 1931, has continued to gain the attention of modern audiences with its obvious relevance to contemporary situations.
		In the last chapter of Man and Technics entitled, "Rise and End of the Machine Culture", Spengler outlines what he believes to be the undeniable signs of the drawing close of Faustian (Western) culture.
		Often this involvement requires the man's subjection to forms of technology which are beyond his ability to control or command.
	www.quodlibet.net /spengler.shtml (4035 words)

	THREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thus, man himself, alive and concrete, the man in the street, is subjected to "means" which are supposed to secure the happiness of "man" in the abstract.
		A man will die for his own well‑being, or because he himself has already become a means: the means of a party, of a nation, of a class; and as a "means" he is thrust into a battle which is being fought for no end.
		Sometimes technical results, like concentration camps, make the majority of men shudder with horror, but that is simply because these people were outside this sphere of technical means: a Russian Communist does not shudder over the camps in Siberia, nor was a National Socialist in Germany horrified at the extermination camps.
	t2100cdt.kippona.net /public/ellul/pk/chapter3.html (7613 words)

	Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas
		In 1931 he published Man and Technics, a book that reflected his fascination with the development and usage, past and future, of the technical.
		Man and Technics is a racialist book, though not in a narrow "Germanic" sense.
		Although he continued the racialist tone of Man and Technics, Spengler belittled what he regarded as the exclusiveness of the National Socialist concept of race.
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Spengler/Stimely_Spengler_Intro.html (3940 words)

	Technics
		The technical advancements of computers have made the new scope possible.
		The figure is taken from a transcription workbench especially developed for annotating, segmenting and aligning the LCAAJ recordings.
		Man kann im Computer eine unbegrenzte Anzahl von Zeichensätzen installieren; dieser kann zur Zeit dank des Unicode-Systems 256 * 256 verschiedene Symbole verwalten, d.h.
	www.eydes.org /technics.htm (427 words)

	Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Nature: A Postmodern Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Postmodernity intends to deconstruct modernity: the "reality" of modernity is deconstructed as a postmodern "possibility." From the perspective of the deep ecology movement, the postmodern possibility purports to be "ecotopian." 4 As a new paradigm, postmodernity is radically discontinuous with modernity: the former intends to become a radical rupture from the latter.
		In his Man and Technics (1932), Oswald Spengler was prophetic in relating modern technomorphic civilization not only to the death of nature but also to the end of man and history.
		Technics, as such, does not contribute to the progress of scientific knowledge" (Rossi, 1970: 109) and experiment had a subordinate place in the scheme of his thought.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v10.3/Jung.html (2843 words)

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		A man who had roamed the earth on mysterious missions and who was found to be so dangerous that his bail was set at $50,000—a figure ten or twenty times the normal bail for passport fraud.
		The spectacle of a man being persecuted, framed and driven to his death simply because he wrote a book is not one we would export to see in the Twentieth Century in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
		At this point in history, our technics, industrial overproduction and the "population explosion" become all-important, for we see that finally the West has the means to turn the poetic imperative of the Faustian drive for the Infinite to reality indeed, the inescapable need to do so.
	www.williscarto.net /Writings/Imperium_Introduction.htm (9557 words)

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		These disparate interpretations of the external world as a symbol for man's true essence, coupled with his cyclical concept of the "morphology of culture" form the foundation upon which the rest of the Decline is built.
		Spengler concludes that the concept of soul for the Apollinian man is found in the role or mask that is so typical of the Greek tragedy, where the external, public aspect is most significant.
		Spengler, Oswald, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960).
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Spengler/SpenglerDoc.html (7763 words)

	Spengler: An Introduction
		This "incredibly jejune and meaningless scheme" can at last be replaced by one now discernible from the vantage-point of years and a greater and more fundamental knowledge of the past: the notion of History as moving in definite, observable, and -- except in minor ways -- unrelated cycles.
		However, this span is the ideal, in the sense that a man's ideal life-span is 70 years, though he may never reach that age, or may live well beyond it.
		No one man could possibly have an equally comprehensive knowledge of all the Cultures surveyed, hence Spengler's treatment is uneven, and he spends relatively little time on the Mexican, Indian, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Chinese -- concentrating on the Arabian, Classical, and Western, especially these last two.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /speng.htm (3664 words)

	Enculturation: Bernd Herzogenrath
		In his tools man possesses power over external nature, even though in respect of his ends he is, on the contrary, subject to it.
		Man, according to Heidegger, is "challenged to exploit the energies of nature" (Heidegger 1971: 299).
		In the realm of sexuality--a symbolic realm, after all, since man is a sexed being qua signifier--the body of the drives is en-framed with regard to a teleological totality.
	enculturation.gmu.edu /3_1/herzogenrath (4982 words)

	mumford
		A deeply informed and strongly directed work, Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization traces the up to 1930 (the year in which it was written) the course of technology and its interplay with the civilizations it shaped and was shaped by.
		Foucault and Vico are most alike in their attempt to re-present the mind of "the" past human being -- a being very different than present-day man. Bewilderingly erudite, the works of Vico and Foucault are most markedly conversations with the echoing past; consequently, both works feel (to a late 20th-century American woman) more feminine.
		There is almost nothing of this concern for and sensitivity to the archaeology of language as an indicator of the mind of the past in Technics and Civilization.
	www.lehigh.edu /~cmp8/worksinprogress/summary/mumford.html (1493 words)

	MAN Roland > Career > Employment
		MAN Roland, Inc. is the North American arm of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, one of the world's largest manufacturers of sheetfed and web printing presses for commercial printers and newspaper publishers, and distributors of print-related equipment of other manufacturers.
		We are part of the prestigious MAN Group with tens of thousands of employees worldwide and total sales exceeding $14 billion in a range of technology-based businesses.
		MAN Roland, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, creed, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
	www.manroland-careers.com (136 words)

	Man and Technics
		What it must have been to man's soul, that first sight of a fire evoked by himself!
		There is director's work and there is executant's work, and this fact has been the basic technical form of all human life ever since.
		Now, his verbally managed enterprise involves an immense loss of freedom -- the old freedom of the beast of prey -- for the leader and the led alike.
	charon.sfsu.edu /SPENGLER/SPENGLER.HTML (233 words)

	The Thirties by Warren Susman
		The typical literary man ceases to be a cultured expatriate with a leaning towards the Church, and becomes an eager-minded schoolboy with a leaning towards communism.
		connect man with man, because they connect us with the best that man has thought, because they are basic to any further study and to any understanding of the world....
		Ultimately, man was alone in his struggle within culture and had to rely on his commitment, his belief in Christ to sustain him.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/ANTHOLOGY/susman.html (14555 words)

	Swazey & Reeds [1978]. Today's Medicine, Tommorow's Science... Chapter 5.
		Thuswewereable to demonstrate that what Garrod had shown for a few genes and a few chemical reactions in man, was true for many genes and many reactions in Neurospora.
		He had first seen his patient, a 20 year old fl who had been raised in the West Indies, when he came to Herrick's hospital in 1904 with a cough, fever, weakness, dizziness, a headache and nasal discharge, a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes, and a history of skin ulcerations.
		Newer technics in cellular and [END OF PAGE 89] molecular biology have been applied to the study of each phase of gene expression from the DNA, to the transcribed messenger RNA's (mRNA's), to protein synthesis utilizing globin mRNA's as templates to define the molecular defects in the thalassemia syndromes.
	newman.baruch.cuny.edu /DIGITAL/2001/swazey_reeds_1978/chap_05.htm (11921 words)

	The DuVersity - Chapter 12 from The Intelligent Enneagram
		There is an early history of the biosphere, before man, and a possible future of the biosphere, which may lead beyond man. We thus place the role of mankind in the second octave.
		Technics are the systems of information processing, which exert control over transformations of mat ter and energy.
		When technics can be manipulated in their own right, when people become aware of World 3, the rules of the game of evolution change.
	www.duversity.org /archives/intellennea.html (7565 words)

	Fake Project - Art Today Association
		Even with the first instrument used by prehistorical man, technics are entangled in a complex structure of mutually linked and dependent components making up human societies, such as myth, power, gender, energy, struggles.
		The dominating role of technics in an ever-spreading world leads to an existence in fragments, defining the working space, occupying everyday life and the “normal” places of everyday life.
		The sources and references of this discussion are obviously much older than the digital technics themselves and their use as means for artistic goals.
	fake.arttoday.org /concept.html (280 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Prophet of Decline: Spengler on World History and Politics (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy S.): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since there is nothing scientific about politics it is impossible to see how a professor of politics can ever prove anything using the study of government as his "science" when dealing with the domain of Metaphysics [which is where Spengler is based].
		This book fails to prove the point of disawoval of "The Decline of the West" by its author as it is seen in "Man and Technics".
		"Man and Technics" was used by Spengler to refine some of the points about the predatory origins of man and warn us about the endgame of the Faustian Civilization in which we live.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Prophet-Decline-Politics-Political-Traditions/dp/0807126535 (768 words)

	Introduction to IMPERIUM, by Professor Revilo P. Oliver
		A man who had roamed the earth on mysterious missions and who was found to be so dangerous that his bail was set at $50,000 -- a figure ten or twenty times the normal bail for passport fraud.
		The spectacle of a man being persecuted, framed and driven to his death simply because he wrote a book is not one we would expect to see in the Twentieth Century in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
		For it is true that, regardless of all arguments to the contrary, Western man is bound to conquer Space or to die in the attempt.
	www.revilo-oliver.com /rpo/Imperium_intro.html (10270 words)

	Prophet of Decline
		Spengler was a man of wide education, with a PhD in philosophy, though his day job had been teaching mathematics in a secondary school.
		His researches persuaded him that man as we know him is quite young, on the order of 100,000 years.
		As in the drama of the tragic character-flaw, man’s story could only be the playing out of the consequences of his nature over time.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/prod.htm (3581 words)

	FLUXEUROPA: KRAFTWERK
		Kraftwerk have been accused of being purely mechanical or even 'coldly Germanic', but these criticisms represent merely a failure to appreciate the irony, ambiguity and subtlety of their message.
		Kraftwerk are concerned with the themes of man and technics.
		They are tuned to the technical reality of the modern world, but they are not uncritical of it.
	www.fluxeuropa.com /kraftwerk.htm (641 words)

	MAN Roland > Company
		MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset printing.
		MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg, and Plauen in Germany.
		It employs a staff of almost 9,000 and has annual sales of EUR 1.7 billion, with an export share of 83%.
	www.man-roland.com /en/p0097/index.jsp (94 words)

	TIME.com: Technical Knockout -- Feb. 29, 1932 -- Page 1
		MAN AND TECHNICS Oswald Spengler —; Knopf ($2).
		Powder to launch his projectile Spengler derives from the dogma "Man is a beast of prey." But he is essentially not only a carnivore, he is also an inventive carnivore.
		Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,882117,00.html (424 words)

	Issue Brief: Public Employment....
		Oswald Spengler customarily referred to bureaucrats as "technics," meaning "technocrats"—i.e., those who have mastered the intricacies of regulatory structures and public payrolls for their own sake.
		Oswald Spengler's "technics" are still very much with us, nowhere more so than in legislative offices and hallways where the state's citizenry is perceived as divided into three separate and distinct categories: (1) gamers, (2) public employees, and (3) peasants.
		In Nevada today, as in Washington, a position on the public payroll is viewed as an entitlement, not a privilege—and no one has less to say about the situation than those of us who pay the bills.
	www.npri.org /issues/issues99/i_b030399.htm (978 words)

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