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ISBNs | 978-5-389-23638-7 |
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The weight | 1,127 kg |
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The figure of Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) stands alone in the history of German and world thought. Spengler single-handedly tried to rethink the generally accepted views on the evolutionary development of mankind: he opposed the linear description of history as an endless unstoppable progress. Instead, he proposed the concept of cyclic 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 1918th-XNUMXth 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 XNUMX, bringing the author great fame and heated discussions. This work had a significant influence on social scientists Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, José Ortega y Gasset.