The Oswald Spengler Society
for the Study of Humanity and World History
Spengler Prize 2026 for
David P. Goldman!
Frankfurt, 15.6.2026
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The Oswald Spengler Society engages in the understanding of the principles underlying Human Evolution and World History and its perspectives. It is dedicated to the comparative study of cultures and civilizations, including pre-history, the evolution of humanity as a whole and extrapolations regarding the possible future of man.
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David Engels (ed.).
Oswald Spengler. Praeceptor Historiae. Journal of the Oswald Spengler Society 3, 2020-2023.
Lüdinghausen, Manuscriptum, 2024, 388 p.
Volume 3 of the 'Oswald Spengler Society' Journal comprises the results of three years of the Societies’ work. It beautifully illustrates how much inspiration Spengler and his morphological reading of history and great civilisations can provide even today. The resulting cross-section ranges from the early days of mankind through contemporary issues to our distant future. The authors not only use Spengler as a key to understanding history, but also build upon his work in a critical and constructive way and develop it further for our time.
David Engels, Gerd Morgenthaler, Max Otte (eds.).
From Herodotus to Spengler: Comparing Civilisations throughout Time and Space. / Von Herodot zu Spengler: Zivilisationsvergleiche quer durch Zeit und Raum.
Lüdinghausen, Manuscriptum, 2024, 238 p.
In September 2020, the Oswald Spengler Prize was awarded to the renowned historian and archaeologist Walter Scheidel (Stanford) – an excellent occasion to hold an international conference to address some of the questions that are of particular interest to the laureate’s research, namely the importance of quantitative methods for comparing historical civilisations, with a special focus on non-European cultures. This volume combines the contributions to this conference with a number of other essays submitted by fellow cultural comparatists and offers a representative cross-section of the diverse questions of civilisation comparison in the tradition of Oswald Spengler.
"Well I can tell you, it has been something of a life experience to have watched the not so gradual coming into fulfillment in this world of every bit of what Spengler promised." - John Campbell. American Mythologist and Advisor to George Lucas on Star Wars.
"The forgotten Spengler has his revenge by threatening to be right in the end. (...) Spengler has hardly found an opponent worthy of him: collective amnesia provides the escape." - Theodor W. Adorno. German Philosopher and co-founder of the "Frankfurt School".
"Ich wüßte keinen, der die Nationalsozialisten, beim Schlafengehen, im Traum und beim Erwachen, so sehr gehaßt hätte wie eben er." Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, German physician and author, killed at Dachau.
Interview with Henry Kissinger: "Which philosophers have influenced you most?" Kissinger: "Spinoza, Kant and Spengler. Spinoza, because he developed a thorough concept concerning how thought holds together all objects. Kant, because he explained the relation between the human spirit and the universe. And Spengler, whom I do not follow in every respect, because he took a most interesting look at the growth and decline of civilisations. What fascinated me most was the thought that civilisations formed a coherent whole, to which all its expressions were tightly related."