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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler ( German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈʃpɛŋlɐ]; 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath, whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
The Decline of the West (German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes; more literally, The Downfall of the Occident) is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality , was published in the summer of 1918. [1]
May 25, 2024 · Oswald Spengler (born May 29, 1880, Blankenburg, Germany—died May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German philosopher whose reputation rests entirely on his influential study Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 2 vol. (1918–22; The Decline of the West), a major contribution to social theory.
It has been nearly fifty years since a German historian, Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), attempted to change the course of historical thinking, and now he is all but forgotten.
May 21, 2018 · The German philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) is famous for his Decline of the West. He held that civilizations, like biological organisms, pass through a determinable life cycle and that the modern West was approaching the end of such a cycle.
Feb 21, 2019 · This chapter discusses the life and work of Oswald Spengler, whose fame is based on his The Decline of the West, a monumental historical study that endeavored to show that all human civilizations live through similar phases of evolution. Spengler also dabbled with politics and attempted, in a series of essays, to promote the idea of a ...
Oswald Spengler wrote his most famous work, the Decline of the West (Vol. I), during lonely years in Munich with World War I raging. Although he thoroughly disliked writing, Spengler saw it as a higher calling.
Apr 11, 2006 · The Decline of the West. Oswald Spengler. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 11, 2006 - History - 480 pages. Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West...
Oswald Spengler’s 1918–22 best-seller The Decline of the West mourned the engulfing of Kultur by the cosmopolitan anthill of Zivilisation and argued that only a dictatorship could arrest the decline. Sociologist Max Weber hoped for charismatic leadership to overcome bureaucracy.
(1880–1936) German philosopher of history. Spengler was educated at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Halle, completing in 1904 a PhD thesis on Heraclitus. He worked as a grammar-school teacher until 1911, when he devoted himself full-time to his own writings.
