Name: The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality
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Author: Oswald Spengler
ISBN: 9788367583732

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The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oswald Spengler

Publisher

Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.

Language

English

Pages

614

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6x14x3.8 cm

Weight

0.93 kg.

ISBN13

9788367583732

Synopsis "The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality"

The first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a milestone in historiography. It is not a standard history book. Instead, it tries to explain the mechanisms that make different cultures tick. While classical culture had no concept of the past or future and was only fixated on the present, Western culture is focused on the past as memory and the future as unconquered territory.Like organisms that are born, mature, and die, cultures are the blossoming youth while civilizations usher in senility, decay, and demise. When a culture becomes a civilization, decadence sets in and the ensuing downward spiral becomes an inevitable whirlwind of self-destruction.The West is in terminal decline, desperately trying to revive the dead forms and traditions that animated the Faustian spirit in its exuberant heyday. It is all in vain as the West has become tired of itself and is unable to innovate in either the arts or philosophy. The West is on its way to the grave and what will see the light next must be something completely new and not just a corpse reanimated.

Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Spengler (Blankenburg, 1880 – Munich, 1936) earned his doctorate in 1904 at the University of Halle with a thesis on Heraclitus. He worked as a high school teacher until a small inheritance from his mother allowed him to move to Munich and dedicate himself to research. Exempt from military service due to health issues, Spengler did not directly participate in World War I, but the conflict significantly influenced his reflections on politics and history. The first volume of The Decline of the West, the work that catapulted the author to fame, was published in 1918 and the second volume in 1922.

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