[Main Blog Post] Understanding Spengler's Decline of the West Bit 3: The Soul Image

[jprussell]

I've gotten to one of the juicier bits of Decline of the West - the "Soul Image" that defines different Great Cultures. Here's the post.

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Soul image

[k_a_nitz]

FWIW I checked my German edition (from 1920) and the German title of chapter V of Vol 1 is "Seelenbild und Lebensgefühl" - which is literally "Soul image and life feeling" or image (Bild = image or picture) of the soul (Seele is soul) and life's (Leben) emotion (Gefühl = feeling or emotion). So the translator was pretty true to the original.

Re: Soul image

[jprussell]

Thanks very much for this! I had heard it was a pretty close translation in general, and usually where there are difficulties, the translator provided a footnote discussing his choice, but it's nice to have confirmation from a German speaker.