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The Decline Of The West

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1991

The Decline Of The West written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

The Decline Of The West Two Volumes In One

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Release Date : 2020-12-09

The Decline Of The West Two Volumes In One written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Cosimo Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-09 with categories.

The Decline of the West by German historian Oswald Spengler, originally published in German as Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Vols. I and II in resp. 1918 and 1922), became an instant success in Germany after its defeat in World War I.

Form And Actuality

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950

Form And Actuality written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Civilization categories.

Decline Of The West Volume I

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Release Date : 2020-12-09

Decline Of The West Volume I written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Cosimo Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-09 with categories.

" ...the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies, ...but the type of a historical change of phase occurring within a great historical organism of definable compass at the point preordained for it hundreds of years ago." --Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West Vol. I, 1914 The Decline of the West, Volume I: Form and Actuality, by German historian Oswald Spengler, originally published in German as Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Vol. I in 1918), became an instant success in Germany after its defeat in World War I. Spengler's description of the end of the Western world and the implication that Germany was part of this larger historical process resonated with the German readers. He described great cultures following a cycle from inception to expansion followed by death. By understanding this cycle, one could reconstruct the past and predict the future. He specifically predicted that in the final stage of Western civilization, in the 20th century, Caesarism, a new and overpowering leadership would arise, replacing individualism, liberalism and democracy. Even though this book was criticized by scholars, it became a bestseller in the 1920s and laid the foundation for the social cycle theory, which states that stages of history generally repeat themselves in cycles.

Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10

Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932 written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Philosophy categories.

First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.

Hour Of Decision

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934

Hour Of Decision written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Civilization categories.

Man And Technics

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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.
Release Date : 2023-06-14

Man And Technics written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Legend Books Sp. Z O.O. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-14 with Philosophy categories.

In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after over ninety years. He foresaw the environmental consequences of industrialization, leading to species extinction. Spengler predicted that low-wage labor from Third World countries would outcompete Western workers, causing industrial production to shift to regions like East Asia, India, and South America. He argued that technology alienates humanity from nature, dominating our culture. Despite mastering nature, man becomes enslaved by technology. Spengler believed the West would grow disillusioned with its artificial lifestyle and eventually despise the civilization it created. The relentless progress of technology ensures the self-destruction of the high-tech West from within. He envisioned a future where our cities crumble like ancient palaces. Whether this prophecy will come true remains to be seen.

Travel Narrative And The Ends Of Modernity

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Author : Stacy Burton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014

Travel Narrative And The Ends Of Modernity written by Stacy Burton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.

Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.

Oswald Spengler

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Author : H. Stuart Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1991-01-01

Oswald Spengler written by H. Stuart Hughes and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Since its publication in 1918, Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West has been the object of academic controversy and opprobrium. In their efforts to dispose of it, scholars have resorted to a variety of tactics: bitter invective, icy scorn, urbane mockery, or simply pretending that the book is not there. Yet generations of readers have refused to be warned off, finding in Spengler a prophetic voice and a source of profound intellectual excitement. H. Stuart Hughes's Oswald Spengler offers a judicious and objective reading of Spengler's works that admirably fills the gap between hypercritical invective and naïve enthusiasm. This pioneering volume makes clear why Spengler's pessimistic reading of the fate of European civilization continues to resonate with contemporary anxieties. Despite the author's self-imposed intellectual and social isolation, Spengler's work was as Hughes demonstrates, a part of the enormous effort of intellectual reevaluation that has characterized the early twentieth century. Viewing Spengler in the broadest possible perspective, the author places his thought in its cultural relationship to that of such predecessors as Giambattista Vico, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Nikolai Danilevsky and contemporaries including Benedetto Croce, Henri Bergson, and Vilfredo Pareto. A chapter of Hughes's book is devoted to Spengler's influence on later cyclical thinkers such as Arnold Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin. Another chapter clarifies the essentially antagonistic relationship between his thought and Nazi ideology. Throughout, Hughes is carefully attuned to the complex and often bewildering shifts of Spengler's ideas and manner, providing a unified picture of the sober historian; the lofty seer; the cool, detached observer; and the impassioned participant. In his introduction to this new edition, Hughes comments on the timeliness of Spengler's message with respect to technology and environmental issues and draws some unexpected and fascinating parallels between Spengler's thought and that of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Oswald Spengler offers an illuminating view of the achievements and limitations of one of the most influential and representative figures of the twentieth century. It will be of concern to intellectual historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists.