According to spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. It was conceived, the author tells us, before 1914 and fully worked out by 1917. Konnen aber mit calibre freeware in 16 andere formate, z. Oswald arnold gottfried spengler 29 may 1880 8 may 1936 was a german historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. Oswald spengler s the decline of the west was a huge international bestseller after the first world war for reasons that will become obvious, and for reasons that may be just as much so, spengler considered his theories prophetic and completely justified given that he started this book in 1911 before the shit totally hit the fan.
His work made serious impact, clashing itself with fukuyamas. Het bood, als men zijn stijl apprecieerde, ook voor elk wat wils. Spenglers werk wird in zyklen immer wieder neu entdeckt. Auch heute noch missverstanden, umgedeutet, fehlinterp. Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled perspectives of world history, in 1923. It was conceived, the author tells us, before 1914 and fully worked out by. Stockton shortly before the end of the first world war, in the summer of 1918, a sizable volume appeared in bookstores throughout germany. Zarys morfologii historii uniwersalnej skrot dokonany przez helmuta wernera, tl. Oswald spengler mythos vom untergang des abendlandes. Oswald spengler project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. It must be left to critics to say whether it was destiny or incident using these words in the authors sense that spenglers untergang des abendlandes appeared in july, 1918, that is, at the very turning point of the four years world war. Oswald arnold gottfried spengler 1880 1936 was a german historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art.
Spengler s model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan. Publication date 1920 topics civilization publisher munchen. I surfed it a bit, considered it pretty heavy and indigestible cake, but made a mental note to look at it more carefully when i had the leisure. The decline of the west or the downfall of the occident, is a twovolume work by oswald.
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