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The sunset of the Western world. Essays on the Morphology of World History

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The sunset 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 single-handedly attempted to rethink conventional views on the evolutionary development of humankind: he opposed the linear description of history as endless, unstoppable progress. Instead, he proposed the concept of cyclical development, according to which new cultures emerge, flourish, and then pass through stages of decline and death. Each such cycle lasts about a thousand years, and each culture has distinctive features that determine people's thinking and actions. Already the very title of the work contains the thesis, which was substantiated in the book - at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the culture of the Western world, according to Spengler, came to a period of decline. The first volume of the book was published in 1918, brought the author great fame and provoked heated discussions. This work had a significant influence on social scientists Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, and José Ortega y Gasset.
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