Henry Adams

>>9172218
I tried reading The Education, but only got through about a quarter of it. Pretty meandering and pointless. And from what I understand, if you read it all the way to the end, his philosophy is that nothing really matters much except scientific progress, and any education that doesn't prepare one for the coming changes brought by science is worthless.

>>9173128
From what I understand, Adams has a similar theory of history as Spengler. They're both cultural conservatives

>>9172218
Big time. MSM&C and the Education twice overthe years. And the Jefferson phase of his history. Read the first initially in a medieval history class (some of the other texts- The Name of the Rose, The Cult of the Saints- Peter Brown- and The Sacred Canopy- Peter Berger) and have been a fan of his ever since. He's an edgy, nervous yet beautiful writer in the first two; supremely confident in the history. I'll get to the Adams on Adams (John) some time this year.