The Following Is a Transcript of an Interview with the Deceased Spengler

 86 Years Ago Today

Friday 8th of May 1936
Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in München, Bayern, Germany.

Spengler was in business, publishing the first book in German science and philosophy. He was the first philosopher to enter the American publishing world. Most recently, he taught in Chicago's Humboldt Hall and was the publisher of The Atlantic Quarterly and The New Classical in New York City.

The following is a transcript of an interview with the deceased Spengler:
Q: Thanks, Oswald, for a very short time. Did you know that you were a journalist? A: Probably not. In my youth, I was a very close friend of Karl Spengler. In college at Leipzig, I was in a very interesting position. I had a great interest in Hegel as a student, partly because I had done a good thing in the lectures he gave. His lectures, in contrast, were interesting and thought out ideas. But I had a great interest in the way in which they could be put in action.
Q: How does one get into academia? A: Most students come to society as individuals. One of the things they learn is that people are different. To think they are different is to feel that you have different opinions. In other cultures, people can say, 'I like the politics of the world.'