WN Syllabus Contest

Write a WN syllabus -- you know, what all WNs should read, see and listen to to truly understand White culture and values and to understand WN in general. Include only the best, most important stuff.

How about the contest ending in one month [Sept. 29, 2004]? All of the mods and admins at VNNF can vote on the syllabuses sometime after Sept. 29. How about the best one wins, plus maybe one runner-up? Who knows: if your syllabus is good enough, maybe VNN or VNNF will post it permanently? It is possible, anyway. You never know.

Here is a general framework to start with that can be cut-and-pasted. Maybe, due to space reasons, each category should be limited to 10 works total .


[B]Books

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Misc. books


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Art


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2. Caravaggio

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Music

1. Wagner

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Architecture


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WN Syllabus Contest

Write a WN syllabus -- you know, what all WNs should read, see and listen to to truly understand White culture and values and to understand WN in general. Include only the best, most important stuff.

How about the contest ending in one month [Sept. 29, 2004]? All of the mods and admins at VNNF can vote on the syllabuses sometime after Sept. 29. How about the best one wins, plus maybe one runner-up? Who knows: if your syllabus is good enough, maybe VNN or VNNF will post it permanently? It is possible, anyway. You never know.

Here is a general framework to start with that can be cut-and-pasted. Maybe, due to space reasons, each category should be limited to 10 works total [but some might contain less than 10].


Books

WN books

1. Mein Kampf, by Hitler

2. Decline of the West, by Spengler

3. Race, Evolution, and Behavior, by Rushton

4. The Lightning and the Sun, by Devi

5. Which Way Western Man?, by Simpson

6. The International Jew, by Ford

7. The Iron Heel, by London

8. Hitler: Hubris, by Kershaw

These are not WN but still required WN reading:

1. The Communist Manifesto, by Marx

2. The Talmud, by the Rat-People

3. Germany Must Perish!, by Kaufman

4. Jewish Power, by Goldberg

5. Jews Must Live, by Roth

Misc. books


1. The Prince, by Machiavelli

2. Art of War, by Sun Tzu

3. The Aeneid, by Virgil

4. The Mabinogion, Gantz translation

5. Politics, by Aristotle

6. The numerous and varied Viking Sagas

7. Faust, by Goethe



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Art
(books on art, or actualy artists? Ill assume artists. Does film count?)

1. School of Athens, by Raphael

2. David, by Michaelangelo

3. Truimph of the Will, by Riefenstahl

4. The Truimph of Death, by Bruegel

(I also recommend Arno Breker and Josef Thoraks works in NS Germany)




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Music

1. Der Ring des Nibelungen, by Wagner

2. The Marriage of Figaro, by Mozart and Da Ponte

3. Parsifal, by Wagner

4. Moonlight Serenade, by Beethoven

5. Fur Elise, by Beethoven




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Architecture


1. Colosseum

2. Temple of Artemus

3. Forum Romanum

4. Pantheon

I would tailor the response to individual's level of educational attainment and personal interests.

Five architectural highlights is pretty tough. I would say:

Pyramids of Giza

Parthenon

Pantheon

Notre Dame de Paris

Westminster Abbey

VNN is my syllabus. Hossanah.

Unfortunately, the Murphy translation is sloppy. For example, he translates Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei as "German National Socialist Worker's Party."

As much as I dislike the fact, the Manheim (a Jew) translation is superior.

So he is a Jew?
I have also had to conclude that his translation is superior. He may retain errors for 'effect', but that's part of a generally more faithful rendering. "One blood demands one Reich" for "Gleiches Blut gehört in ein gemeinsames Reich" is much stronger than Murphy's "People of the same blood should be in the same Reich". Though given gehört, "Like blood belongs in one Reich" might be better.

WN books (not in any particular order)

1.) Mein Kampf by Hitler

2.) Decline of the West (volume one and two) by Oswald Spengler

3.) The Hour of Decision by Oswald Spengler

4.) The Culture of Critique by Kevin Macdonald

5.) Imperium:The Philosophy of History and Politics by Francis Parker Yockey

6.) The Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard

7.) Revolt against the modern world by Julius Evola

8.) Race, Evolution and Behavior by Professor Rushton

9.) My Awakening by David Duke

10.) Roots of Radicalism by Stanley Rothman

Misc books

1.) Thus spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

2.) The Concept of the Political by Carl schmitt

3.) Eugenics by Richard Lynn

4.) All works of Plato & Aristotle

5.) Sociobiology by Edward Wilson

yep western great list that one itz!

WN books

1. Mein Kampf

2. Turner Diaries

3. Campaign In Russia: With The Waffen SS On The Eastern front

4. Lightning And The Sun

5. Early Civilizations Of The Nordic Peoples (A Must-Read) Roger Pearson

6. Wenn Alle Bruder Schweigen/When All The Brothers Are Silent

7. Jewish Ritual Murder Arnold Leese

8. In Hoc Signo Vinces G L Rockwell

9. Deutchland Erwacht/Germany Awake

10. The Unknown Stromtrooper



Misc. books

1. Beowulf

2. The Havamal

3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche

4. The Iliad Homer



Art

1. Eternal Spring (Auguste Rodin)

2. The Sphinx

3. 1812 Gallery in the Winter Palace (Leningrad/St Petersburg)

4. Everything from Germany 1933-1945




Music

1. The Ring Cycle Wagner

2. Beethovens 9th

3. Beethovens 5th

4. Carmina Burana Carl Orff

5. The 6 Brandenburg Concertos J S Bach





Architecture (All located in Leningrad/St Petersburg)

1. Hermitage

2. Peter-And-Paul Fortress

3. St Isaac's Cathedral

4. The Kazan Cathedral

5. Malachite Hall in the Hermitage

I would like to point out that this syllabus contest is NOT just a contest. It is also a teaching tool......clever, huh? :D

I hope that we will see some more syllabus submissions. Please tell other WNs - especially new WNs - what you think they should read, see, etc. and maybe also why they should.


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these lists are a good start but we should break this down into more specific and particular learning objectives.

then how about breaking the booklists down into three levels. like 100 level, 200 level, and 300 level.

here would be a reasonable list for three courses in society and politics:

I would like to see some basic reading at the 100 level like Hobbes Leviathan and Niccolo Machiavelli, the Prince, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's The Politics. Orwell's Animal Farm. I know that's heavy reading, but basic concepts before advanced right? this level is thesis.

200 level would introduce some problematic stuff. would get to the Enlightenment. Something by Rousseau. Then Marx. Then perhaps something by a Judaized American, like Dewey, or perhaps some typical American Progressive or Abolitionist utopian screed. wrestle with that stuff to make "antithesis."

300 level would be synthesis. Spengler's Decline of the West, Hitler's MK, Evola's Revolt against the Modern World, KMD's Culture of Critique. Mabye WGS WWWM.

Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

Many consider this the grounding work of modern conservatism. That sort of thing means little, but Burke was intelligent, painstaking, and paid careful attention to actual facts, and, properly, detested and recognized the danger of theorizing madmen, such as visited hell on France. Burke's words are completely in line with racialism. His arguments dovetail with ours. He does not address race directly as I recall, but he points out specific facts about France, America, India, and Ireland in analyzing the various situations. He preferred specific, traditional freedoms to abstractions such as "rights of man." Thus, he would have been completely open to our argument that niggers exists, whereas modern "conservatives," bought and trained by jews, forbid their acknowledging that portion of reality, and force them to pretend they believe race doesn't matter, as we saw at their recent convention. Of course, in Burke's time, it would never have occurred to White men to suggest that niggers were humans, let alone our equals. Burke places too much faith in tradition, which makes him in a backhanded way cousin in flaw to the French rationalists, but he is always eloquent, and he approaches things in the right spirit: trying to understand and appreciate the wisdom in them, rather than assuming they may easily be altered for the better. Burke is someone you would want teaching your kid, or serving on a town council. Someone sober and reliable - someone genuinely wise. The type one would like to think would naturally rise to the top of Aryan society, and at least to some extent did, in the centuries before the jewing.

Rabelais should be read. Some of the funniest stuff ever written, there are passages that are genuinely howlingly funny. Imagine the drabbest most ideological feminist cunt hectoring a remedial English class at Midget State - well, he is the antacid and antipodean opposite.

Orwell and Hitler should be read and compared. This is highly instructive, and nobody has ever really done it. Orwell is taken as Hitler critic, in part, yet Hitler can be taken as performance critic of Orwell. Both writers lived around the same time, they saw the same world, they measured their world by word and action. Compare the weak tea of Anglo-socialist moralizing with the hearty stew of German bravery and loyalty. There's a reason that, in 2004, Orwell is praised and promoted and Hitler sworn at and censored.

When you've read all these, you've seen how the very best men the world has produced are: funny, flexible, loyal, brave, and pay very close attention to facts. Just as we should ourselves!

Syllabus

Books

1. The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis Of Jewish Involvement In Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, by Kevin MacDonald [although granted, it is not a WN book per se]

2. Which Way Western Man? by William Gayley Simpson

3. My Awakening by David Duke

4. The Controversy of Zion by Douglas Reed

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Other books/authors

1. The Prince by Machiavelli

2. Any good, unbiased Western Civilization book

3. H. L. Mencken

4. Charles Dickens

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Art

1. M. M. Caravaggio

2. Jacques-Louis David

3. Jean-Honore Fragonard


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Architecture :

1. The Vatican [Italy] [especially inside St. Peter's Basilica]

2. Notre Dame [France]

3. The Palace of Versailles [France]

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Music

1. Wagner

2. German march music, WWII-era

3. [I]Deutschland Uber Alles by Haydn







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Who do people feel are the better stylists working today?

Jim Goad, Hunter Thompson have it. The writers in Esquire and the Eastern Press are drab. Tyrrel used to have something, but devolved into run of the mill Bush/Repcunt cheerleader. P.J. O'Rourke had it. Seems to have lost something. His recent stuff's not funny, and his analysis is little more interesting than the the rest of the neocon penners.

Maybe distinctive is another approach. Jimmy Cantrell and his Celtic-Southron thesis is worth reading. He says Germanic culture's based not on justice and morality, but on winner-is-right, loser-is-wrong/bad/evil. He sounds whiny sometimes, but he's got his stick and he's shtiking to it. Same with Raimondo. He know how to dig out the relevant info. He can almost analyze it.

Are there any other writers out there worth paying attention to? I'd like to see names and links.

Off the top of my head, I guess I'd say Goad, Cantrell, Raimondo, Thompson are the non-WN whose names elicit the most interest. Not a lot of great stuff out there.

Well, the contest has ended. I hope that you all learned something, since that was the main idea of the contest. It is too bad that so few posters shared their ideas.







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Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

Many consider this the grounding work of modern conservatism. That sort of thing means little, but Burke was intelligent, painstaking, and paid careful attention to actual facts, and, properly, detested and recognized the danger of theorizing madmen, such as visited hell on France. Burke's words are completely in line with racialism. His arguments dovetail with ours. He does not address race directly as I recall, but he points out specific facts about France, America, India, and Ireland in analyzing the various situations. He preferred specific, traditional freedoms to abstractions such as "rights of man." Thus, he would have been completely open to our argument that niggers exists, whereas modern "conservatives," bought and trained by jews, forbid their acknowledging that portion of reality, and force them to pretend they believe race doesn't matter, as we saw at their recent convention. Of course, in Burke's time, it would never have occurred to White men to suggest that niggers were humans, let alone our equals. Burke places too much faith in tradition, which makes him in a backhanded way cousin in flaw to the French rationalists, but he is always eloquent, and he approaches things in the right spirit: trying to understand and appreciate the wisdom in them, rather than assuming they may easily be altered for the better. Burke is someone you would want teaching your kid, or serving on a town council. Someone sober and reliable - someone genuinely wise. The type one would like to think would naturally rise to the top of Aryan society, and at least to some extent did, in the centuries before the jewing.

Rabelais should be read. Some of the funniest stuff ever written, there are passages that are genuinely howlingly funny. Imagine the drabbest most ideological feminist cunt hectoring a remedial English class at Midget State - well, he is the antacid and antipodean opposite.

Orwell and Hitler should be read and compared. This is highly instructive, and nobody has ever really done it. Orwell is taken as Hitler critic, in part, yet Hitler can be taken as performance critic of Orwell. Both writers lived around the same time, they saw the same world, they measured their world by word and action. Compare the weak tea of Anglo-socialist moralizing with the hearty stew of German bravery and loyalty. There's a reason that, in 2004, Orwell is praised and promoted and Hitler sworn at and censored.

When you've read all these, you've seen how the very best men the world has produced are: funny, flexible, loyal, brave, and pay very close attention to facts. Just as we should ourselves!

great comments about burke, I bolded one observation that was new to me which I think is a fair criticism.

excellent idea about orwell and hitler. great book project for alex linder, no?

what do you mean when you say stylist? just somebody you want to sit down and read no matter what he's talking about? non-fiction essayist?

hunter thompson, tops.

when I get "the american conservative" in the mail, I always turn to taki's column first. I dont even give a shit what patsy says most of the time anymore, he bores me. taki, that's fun to read and always interesting.

raimondo, writes well. always look for something by him, second off. I am reading "911 the terror enigma and the israeli espionage connection" great book.

I like to read "Alex Linder" too or I wouldnt be here so goddamned much!

in fiction, I have two contemporary favorites. Anne Rice and Andrew Vacchs. Anne Rice, very sensual detail oriented writing. Just like to sit down and gobble it up. Always the bizarre content hooks you in, and then the details and character development carry you along. The plot serves the characters. Vacchs, very different, here the characters are very strong but the writing is sparse and tight and economical. His charachters serve his plots. Vachss, great revenge stories by the way.

Rabelais is amazing, very rude and raucous. I most enjoyed his characters Panurge and Brother John from Gargantua and Pantgruel. Joyce lifted a lot from this novel, but Ulysses is wank and it's about a dreary kike. As Balzac pointed out, for a writer obsessed with drink - wine, mainly - it's amusing that Rabelais himself only ever drank water.

Politics:-

Addresses to the German Nation by the philosopher J.G. Fichte

Complete works of Oswald Spengler

Duties of Man by Joseph Mazzini

[i]Will to Power - Nietzsche

Polybius's histories

Phenomenology of Spirit, division BB to end - Georg Hegel; to understand the idea behind globalisation and One World government

And a good political history of the past 200 years of your own nation (in my case England, 1815-present.)

Walter Gropius and the other founders of the Bauhaus were young German army officers in WWI. Gropius himself was a member of one of the "free corps" after WWI. When Hitler may have been photographed on the Bolshevik side??? Ever seen that photo???

The disagreement between Hitler & Gropius was more artsy-fartsy than political, and also had aspects of alte Deutsche vs. platt Deutsche.

Matter of fact, Gropius's style of good machine design is almost a trade mark of what most would consider a Hitler era development.

Let's not have artistic temper interfer with good design.

Frank Lloyd Wright was an anti-semite; that never has stopped the jews from flocking to his school or seeking to own his buildings. Much the same can be said of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus.

I think Bauhaus is an utterly failed architectural movement that conceives of man and society as mechanism. Putting people in little boxes and so forth. Bad boxy designs not consistent with the rounded, unruly nature of human beings which organize themselves around the family not the individual.

Commie Jews flocked to Bauhaus because it fit their materialistic conception of man. Jews like Ayn Rand praised Frank Lloyd Wright because in his own way, he was a trailblazer, and Jews love to fawn over "trailblazers" as false icons of social subversion. Think "The Fountainhead" for a second.

Wright's home designs are livable and intriguing. Bauhaus is not livable. Big difference.

I'm sure Hitler hated his picture window at the Berghof because it was a Bauhaus innovation. :p

hunter thompson, tops.



Hunter's nothing but a text-book,childish,psychotic,selfish,militantly self-righteous,race traitor,that the '50's and 60's were infamous for.Hated Commander Rockwell,loved all the racist jiggerillas,including muhomo ali,whom,he's proudly stated,is one of his three heroes,along with racist jew bob dylan,and fidel castro.Of course,like all such Whites of his ilk,he lives nowhere near the beloved shwoogies,living in a small town in Colorado,Woody Creek,which ,apparently still doesn't have them - but he can expect mexcrements there before long!No doubt the crime rate will soon skyrocket,and Ol' know-it-all Hunter will have to leave it after 35 years or more,and even he'll know why,but, whine that he had to leave because of it,but,babbling some classic lefty double talk,blaming his White racism for the crime rates.

I recommend the reading list compiled by the (now defunct) Guild of the Grail. It is rather thorough.

It is too large to post here, so if anyone would like it, you can feel free to PM me and I'll e-mail you a copy.

-This is the Guild of the Grails essential books:

These are the nine categories of the Reading List:


I -- General Knowledge
II -- Tradition and Traditionalists
III -- Gnosticism
IV -- The Hermetic Art
V -- The Grail Tradition
VI -- Secret Societies and Orders of Knighthood
VII -- The Left-Hand Path
VIII -- The Aryan Mythos
IX -- Self-Overcoming

The Level-1 titles are as follows (see further down the list for descriptions of each title) --

The following five titles form the G:.G:.'s Foundation of Knowledge and are absolutely essential:

*Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
*The Mystery of the Grail by Julius Evola
*Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Micheal Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
*Arktos by Joscelyn Godwin
*Introduction to Magic by Julius Evola and the UR Group

The remaining Level-1 books are:

Category I:
*The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
*A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren
*A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick

Category II:
*The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times by Rene Guenon
*The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon
*The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
*Man and Tecnics by Oswald Spengler
*Imperium by Ulick Varange(Francis Parker Yockey)

Category III:
*Gnosis by Kurt Rudolph

Category IV:
*The Hermetic Tradition by Julius Evola
*Al-Kemi by Andre VandenBroeck
*The Elixir and the Stone by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
*Serpent in the Sky by John Anthony West
*Hermetic Magic by Stephen E. Flowers
*Sacred Geometry by Robert Lawlor

Category V:
*The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz
*The Holy Grail by Malcolm Godwin
*Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Category VI:
*The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
*The Templars and the Assassins by James Wasserman
*The Occult Conspiracy by Michael Howard
*Secret Societies by Arkon Daraul
*The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates
*Chivalry by Maurice Keen

Category VII:
*Lords of the Left-Hand Path by Stephen E. Flowers
*Lucifer Rising by Gavin Baddeley

Category VIII:
*The New View Over Atlantis by John Michell
*At the Center of the World by John Michell
*The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
*Black Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
*The Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander
*The Secret of the Runes by Guido von List
*The Secret King by Stephen E. Flowers and Michael Moynihan

Category IX:
*The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P.D. Ouspensky
*A New Model of the Universe by P.D. Ouspensky
*Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer
*Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
*Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
*Demian by Hermann Hesse
*The Stature of Man by Colin Wilson

BOOKS:
1. My Awakening by David Duke.
2. The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald.
3. Race by John R. Baker.
4. The Poor Man's James Bond by Kurt Saxon.
5. The Outline of History by H.G. Wells.
6. Philosophy: History and Problems by Stumpf.
7. The Story of Art by Gombrich.
8. Basic Writings of Nietzsche.
9. Basic Writings of Jung.
10. Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman.

I am amused by people who think they are going to just dive into Spengler and get anything out of it without a general background in world history.

Hunter S. Thompson was a drug damaged alcoholic suicide, a good example of what NOT to be.

Almost all of these books can be found online! Simply try www.gutenberg.net, www.solargeneral.com, and google.

Philosophy

1. Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler

2. Imperium - Francis Parker Yockey

3. The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzsche

4. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

5. World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer

6. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli

7. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume (I have an aversion to rationalism, but there is much in here of value)

8. The Textbook of the Universe - Steven Eric Romer

9. Foundations of the 20th Century - Houston Stewart Chamberlain

10. Prussianism and Socialism - Oswald Spengler

Once you have digested these works, you will have a solid world-view and ethical foundation from which to critically analyze historical, social and political events and facts you gain from run-of-the-mill books.

History, "White Nationalism", Revisionism, the Jewish Question

1. The International Jew - Henry Ford
2. Lectures on the Holocaust - Germar Rudolf (the best introduction to I know to the topic)
3. The Giant with Feet of Clay - Jurgen Graf
4. The Leuchter Reports
5. Nuremberg -David Irving
6. The Rudolf Report - Germar Rudolf (if you have a stomach for detailed scientific analysis)
7. Wahrheit fuer Deutschland - Udo Walendy (English translation?)
8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
9. The French Revolution - Carlyle
10. the writings of Revilo Oliver - http://www.revilo-oliver.com/

History of the Christian Religion, with particular reference to the Jesus myth theory

1. The Historical Jesus - J.M. Robertson
2. The Christ Myth - Arthur Drews
3. Antiqa Mater - Edwin Johnson
4. The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
5. In Search of 'Ancient Israel' - Philip R. Davies (face it: the ancient history of Israel found in the O.T. is a politcal/religious propaganda tale spun by Yahwist priests in the Babylonian exile)

newer literature

1. Ulysses - James Joyce
2. Heart of Darknes - Joseph Conrad
3. Faust 1 & 2 - Goethe
4. The Sorrows of Werther - Goethe
5. White Fang - Jack London
6. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien (his eulogy to the culture of the West , but more on that some other time)
7. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
8. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
9. Candide - Voltaire
10.Don Quixote - Cervantes

older literature

1. Tristan - Gottfried von Strassburg
2. Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach
3. The Nibelungenlied
4. Le Mort d'Arthur - Thomas Malory
5. Beowulf
6. Metmorphoses - Ovid
7. Aeschylus' plays
8. The Iliad - Homer
9. poems of Ossian
10. The Mahabharata

Poets

1.Keats
2. Goethe
3. Schiller
4. Klopstock
5. Byron
6. Shelley
7. Yeats
8. Pope
9. Shakespeare
10. Poe

Some of the obligatory trash you must peruse to gain a deeper understanding of the ideological insanity of our age - I restrict myself to naming one work per individual here, and I don't bother with modern or, rather, postmodern trash, since there is nothing new in it which is even understandable.

1. Two Treatises on Government - John Locke (the Liberal-Democratic insanity)
2. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (the Communist insanity)
3. Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill (the Hedonist-Materialist insanity)
4. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (the Capitalist-Free Market insanity)
5. The New Testament - God? :D :rolleyes: (the humanitarian insanity)
6. The Social Contract - J.J. Rousseau (the noble-savage insanity)
7. Language, and Culture - Franz Boas (the non-racial insanity)
8. The Virtue of Selfishness -Ayn Rand (the Libertarian insanity)
9. Moses and Monotheism - Sigmund Freud (the insanity of psychology)

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Art


1. Fragonard

2. Boucher (I love the Rococo era ;) )

3. Rafael

4. Manet

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Music

the familiar names ... they are familiar because they are the best

1. Wagner

2. Dvorak

3. Haydn

4. J. S. Bach

5. Tchaikovsky

6. Strauss Jr.

7. Mozart

8. Rossini

9. Beethoven

10. Liszt

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Architecture
If it's from old Vienna, Paris, Florence or ancient Rome, it must be good.

I am amused by people who think they are going to just dive into Spengler and get anything out of it without a general background in world history.

Then again, there is a limit to what one can get out of "history" books without the philosophy of Spengler. IMHO, there is much damage to undo when one gets to Spengler after having read countless books following the rational linear-progressive view of the world.