I love this essay. I forgot where I read it a few months back and thought I read it in a Harold Bloom review. Reading it again, I look forward to reading your other work and future endeavors.
"Who amongst [present-day historians] realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical city-state and the Euclidean geometry, between the space perspective of Western oil painting and the conquest of space by railroad, telephone and long-range weapon, between contrapuntal music and credit economics, there are deep uniformities?"
Spengler also says something like the U.S. is the final resting place of the Faustian man...
I love this essay. I forgot where I read it a few months back and thought I read it in a Harold Bloom review. Reading it again, I look forward to reading your other work and future endeavors.
Massive complement
Totally agreed!! In fact the men who actually did the exploring were the true Faustian
"Who amongst [present-day historians] realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical city-state and the Euclidean geometry, between the space perspective of Western oil painting and the conquest of space by railroad, telephone and long-range weapon, between contrapuntal music and credit economics, there are deep uniformities?"
Spengler also says something like the U.S. is the final resting place of the Faustian man...