| Live-broadcast of the awarding of the 2022 Spengler Prize to Jordan B. Peterson, 30.8.2022, with speeches from the laureate as well as from the society's board members Gerd Morgenthaler, David Engels and Max Otte. The Spengler-Society’s biennial prize is not intended to exclusively honour current Spengler research, but rather to pay homage to thinkers, artists and other personalities who have rendered outstanding services to topics also dear to Spengler and his work. In 2018, therefore, Michel Houellebecq was honoured for his unsparing literary description of the decline of our civilisation; in 2020, Walter Scheidel for his contribution to quantification in comparative cultural studies; and now, in 2022, the Spengler Society has chosen the well-known Canadian psychiatrist and philosopher Jordan B. Peterson. Like few other thinkers of our time, Peterson has successfully combined a ruthless diagnosis of the decay of our civilisation with an appeal to the last Westerners’ sense of duty and morality. Just like Spengler, who did not want his deterministic view of history to be understood as a call for defeatism, but rather as the ultimate justification of a pessimistic heroism, Peterson also fights for holding on to the very own basic values of our civilisation despite a disillusioned insight into its dire state - and has reached millions of readers, especially young ones, with this message. The fact that Peterson understands and legitimises these values not only in terms of evolutionary biology, but increasingly also in terms of tradition and civilisation, and in addition has in recent years been promoting a constructive approach to the Christian faith as the ultimate foundation of the Occident, makes his work increasingly compatible and complementary to that of Spengler. https://gettr.com/post/p1oz9pia591 |
Max Otte is a German-American economist, book author, fund manager, and conservative political activist. Otte is a member of the German Christian Democrats and the chairperson of the advisory board of the Desiderius Erasmus Foundation. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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