| PREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION | | xiii | |
| PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION | | xxi | |
| PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION | | xxiii | |
| EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE ABRIDGED EDITION | | xxvii | |
| I INTRODUCTION | | 3 | |
| The meaning of History for the individual |
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| Antiquity and India: unhistorical |
| | 7 | |
| Egyptian and Western man: historical |
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| One-sided interpretations of the picture of Classical history |
| | 21 | |
| The problem of "Civilization" |
| | 24 | |
| The conclusionùImperialism |
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| Significance of the main theme |
| | 30 | |
| The relation of a morphology of World-History to religion |
| | 31 | |
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| II THE MEANING OF NUMBERS | | 41 | |
| Number as the sign of completed demarcation |
| | 42 | |
| Every Culture has its own mathematic |
| | 44 | |
| Classical numbers as magnitude |
| | 46 | |
| The world according to Aristarchus. Diophantus and the Magian mathematic |
| | 50 | |
| Western mathematic as function |
| | 54 | |
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| The Classical limit-problem and the liberation from the visual |
| | 64 | |
| III THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY | | 70 | |
| Physiognomic and Systematic |
| | 70 | |
| | 71 | |
| Style, tempo, duration, synchronism |
| | 75 | |
| The idea of Destiny and the principle of Causality |
| | 76 | |
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| Is there a science of History? |
| | 83 | |
| IV MAKROKOSMOS: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-PICTURE AND THE SPACE-PROBLEM | | 87 | |
| Macrocosmùthe sum total of all symbols in relation to one soul |
| | 87 | |
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| Spatial depth as "time become rigid." The prime symbol |
| | 90 | |
| The Classical and the Western prime symbol |
| | 94 | |
| V MAKROKOSMOS: APOLLINIAN, FAUSTIAN AND MAGIAN SOUL | | 97 | |
| Architecture and divinities |
| | 97 | |
| The Egyptian and the Chinese prime symbol |
| | 100 | |
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| The architecture of the window |
| | 105 | |
| The great style. The history of style as an organism |
| | 107 | |
| History of the Arabian style |
| | 110 | |
| VI MUSIC AND PLASTIC: THE ARTS. OF FORM | | 115 | |
| Arts as the symbol of the higher order |
| | 115 | |
| Apollinian and Faustian art |
| | 117 | |
| The Renaissance regarded as an anti-Gothic (anti-musical) movement |
| | 121 | |
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| Gold background and studio-brown |
| | 130 | |
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| VII MUSIC AND PLASTIC: ACT AND. PORTRAIT | | 135 | |
| Varieties of human portraiture |
| | 135 | |
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| Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangeloùas vanquishers of the Renaissance |
| | 143 | |
| The victory of instrumental music in 1670 and a Classical parallel |
| | 149 | |
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| Pergamum and Bayreuth: The end of Art |
| | 155 | |
| VIII SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING: ON THE FORM OF THE SOUL | | 159 | |
| The Soul-image, a function of the World-image |
| | 159 | |
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| Classical behaviour-drama and Faustian character-drama |
| | 165 | |
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| The art of the day and of the night |
| | 171 | |
| Popular and esoteric character. The image of astronomy. The geographical horizon |
| | 172 | |
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| IX SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING: BUDDHISM, STOICISM, SOCIALISM | | 176 | |
| Every Culture possesses its own ethic |
| | 176 | |
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| The morale of dawning "Civilization" |
| | 181 | |
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| X FAUSTIAN AND APPOLLINIAN NATURE- KNOWLEDGE | | 188 | |
| Every science is dependent upon a religion |
| | 188 | |
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| The interpretation of "Experience" |
| | 197 | |
| The "God-feeling" and Nature |
| | 199 | |
| The great myth. Faustian, Classical, Magian numina |
| | 201 | |
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| Faustian physics as the dogma of farce |
| | 209 | |
| The limits of further theoreticalùnot technicalùdevelopment |
| | 212 | |
| The self-destruction of dynamic physics; historical ideas appear |
| | 216 | |
| The last stage. Dissolution in a system of morphological relationships |
| | 220 | |
| XI ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE: THE COSMIC AND THE MICROCOSM | | 226 | |
| XII ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE: THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES | | 230 | |
| XIII CITIES AND PEOPLES | | 245 | |
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| Form-languages of "Civilization" |
| | 252 | |
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| XIV PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: HISTORIC PSEUDOMORPHOSES | | 268 | |
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| The Russian pseudomorphosis |
| | 270 | |
| The period of Arabian feudalism |
| | 275 | |
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| Jews, Chaldeans and Persians of the "pre-Culture" |
| | 281 | |
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| The teaching of Jesus. Paul |
| | 289 | |
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| The heathen and Christian cult-Churches |
| | 296 | |
| XV PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: THE MAGIAN SOUL | | 299 | |
| The dualism of the World-Cavern |
| | 299 | |
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| The group of the Magian religions |
| | 309 | |
| The religions of Magian Christianity. The end of theology |
| | 312 | |
| XVI PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE: PYTHAGORAS, MOHAMMED, CROMWELL | | 319 | |
| The nature of religion; morality as sacrifice |
| | 319 | |
| Morphology of religious history |
| | 323 | |
| Egypt and the Ancient World |
| | 324 | |
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| XVII THE STATE: THE PROBLEM OF THE ESTATES | | 354 | |
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| XVIII STATE AND HISTORY | | 360 | |
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| The period of the Contending States |
| | 375 | |
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| XIX PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS | | 382 | |
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| XX THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE: MONEY | | 398 | |
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| Thinking in terms of goods and in terms of money |
| | 403 | |
| Classical and Western money-thought |
| | 407 | |
| | 408 | |
| XXI THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE: THE MACHINE | | 409 | |
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