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Oswald Spengler 1880–1936 - 

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every culture passes a life cycle from youth through maturity and old age to death. Western culture, he believed, had proceeded through this same cycle and had entered the period of decline, from which there was no escape. Spengler upheld the ideal of obedience to the state and supported German hegemony in Europe. His refusal to support Nazi theories of racial superiority led to his ostracism after the Nazis came to power in 1933 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press

Reading

• Der Untergang des Abendlandes in German. Original 1919.
  • Decline of the West: Perspectives of World History
• Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life 
• The Hour of Decision: Germany & World-Historical Evolution 
• Aphorisms
• Selected Essays

Writing Available on the Internet

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/

Commentary

Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas

The Oswald Spengler Collection

See critical study by H. S. Hughes (1952).

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