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PresentationWe welcome papers on all aspects of conflict and violence (broadly construed) in relation to Spengler&#8217;s work. The following possible topics are to be taken as merely suggestive: Violence and conflict within Spengler&#8217;s Decline of the West (Caesarism, inter-cultural conflict, cultural death, longing and dread, the fellaheen)Spengler&#8217;s critique of the EnlightenmentSpengler and the Conservative Revolution (proximity to and conflict with fellow conservatives, the role of violence in Spengler&#8217;s political project, civilisation as cultural death, reactionary modernism)Spengler and Technology (technology and cultural expansion, technology as &#8220;weapon of the weak&#8221;, transhumanism)Violence and conflict in Spengler&#8217;s later work (conflict as an historical agent of cultural change, the history of the chariot, man as &#8220;beast of prey&#8221;, the death of the West and the end of history)Conflict between Spengler&#8217;s early and later work (the abandonment of cultural cycles, linear history, Social Darwinism and philosophical anthropology, technology as cultural artefact, the environment and technics)Heraclitus and Nietzsche: the agonistic roots of Spengler&#8217;s worldviewInterpretative conflicts in Spengler scholarshipThe impact of Spengler&#8217;s work on subsequent historical and philosophical thought (conflict and violence in Kissinger, Toynbee, Wittgenstein, Frye, Borkenau, Frobenius, Heidegger, etc.)The impact of Spengler&#8217;s work on conflict and violence in the arts (Lovecraft, Kerouac, Yeats, Durrell, Ambler, etc.)The impact of Spengler&#8217;s work on the popular imagination (past and present)The critical reaction to Spengler (the Spengler-Streit, Adorno, Marcuse, Ortega y Gasset, Evola, Mumford, Collingwood, etc.)Critical analyses of Spengler&#8217;s cultures (the viability and coherence of culture organisms, the cultures that Spengler forgot, perspectives on The Decline of the West from outside the West)This special issue is guest-edited by Gregory Swer.The selected articles will be published by Trivent Publishing in May 2021.Important Dates and Submission GuidelinesWe kindly ask all prospective authors to send their intent of submitting a paper for this issue with a short 500 word abstract to&#160;gregswer@gmail.com and&#160;andreas.wilmes@trivent-publishing.eu by no later than September 15th, 2020Authors will be informed on whether to proceed or not by September 22nd, 2020.Full papers should be written in the PJCV template available on https://trivent-publishing.eu/32-philosophical-journal-of-conflict-and-violence-pjcv&#160;&#160;and should have a maximum of 20 pages.Full papers will be submitted by January 15th, 2021 via&#160;https://reviewslot.euGuest EditorsDr. Gregory Swer, Walter Sisulu University, South AfricaContact UsFor any queries, please contact us at&#160;gregswer@gmail.com, andreas.wilmes@trivent-publishing.eu&#160;and teodora.artimon@trivent-publishing.eu