He specifically predicted that in the final stage of Western civilization, in the 20 th century, Caesarism, a new and overpowering leadership would arise, replacing individualism, liberalism and democracy.Įven 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. By understanding this cycle, one could reconstruct the past and predict the future. He described great cultures following a cycle from inception to expansion followed by death.
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.
II in 1922), became an instant success in Germany after its defeat in World War I. The Decline of the West, Volume II: Perspectives of World-History by German historian Oswald Spengler, originally published in German as Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Vol. " -Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West Vol. Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West: Outlines of a Morphology of World History (1918/22) exerted a profound influence on intellectual discourse in. 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. Stuart Hughes and a great selection of related. the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies. The Decline of the West by Spengler, Oswald & Helmut Werner & Arthur Helps & Charles Francis Atkinson & H.
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