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The Decline of the Western World. Essays on the Morphology of World History

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The Decline of the Western World. Essays on the Morphology of World History
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The figure of Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) stands apart in the history of German and world thought. Spengler attempted to single-handedly rethink the generally accepted views on the evolutionary development of humanity: he opposed the linear description of history as endless, unstoppable progress. Instead, he proposed the concept of cyclical development, according to which new cultures arise, experience a period of prosperity, and then go through stages of decline and death. Each such cycle lasts about a thousand years, each culture has distinctive features that determine the thinking and actions of people. The very title of the work contains the thesis that was substantiated in the book - at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, according to Spengler, the culture of the Western world entered a period of decline. The first volume of the book was published in 1918, brought the author great fame and caused heated discussions. This work had a significant influence on sociologists Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, and Jose Ortega y Gasset.
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