The decline of the West : Volume 1, Form and actuality by Oswald Spengler
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"The Decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and Actuality" by Oswald Spengler is a philosophical work published in 1918. Spengler rejects traditional linear history, proposing instead that civilizations are organic entities with thousand-year lifespans. Cultures flourish and create, then become civilizations marked by military expansion and intellectual stagnation, before inevitably declining. He argues that Western civilization has entered its "winter" phase—a protracted sunset similar to Rome's fall. Through morphological analysis inspired
by Goethe, Spengler identifies eight major cultures and charts their rise and decline across history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Atkinson, Charles Francis, 1880-1960 |
| Title | The decline of the West : Volume 1, Form and actuality |
| Original Publication | London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 45.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | CB: History: History of civilization |
| Subject | Civilization -- History |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 72344 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-72344-0 |
| Release Date | Dec 6, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2602 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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