Oswald Spengler: The Decline Of The West, Vol 2: Perspectives Of World - History
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Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was a philosopher of history who is regarded as one of the principal Conservative Revolutionary figures of the Weimar period in Germany. His most important work was his two volume 1918/23 book The Decline of the West, in which he theorised that all civilisations go through an inevitable cycle of ages of rise and decline in power, with the West currently entering its declining period. The book went on to be immensely influential throughout the world. He saw... a distinction between what he termed “German socialism” and Marxism. Although a nationalist, he was skeptical about the Nazis when they came to power, disagreeing particularly with their racial policies. He joined the German Academy in 1933.
