DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES: UMRISSE EINER MORPHOLOGIE DER WELTGESCHICHTE. BY OSWALD SPENGLER. Munich: Beck, v. I, "Gestalt und Wirklichkeit," 1918; v. II, "Welthistorische Perspektiven," 1922.
Dahinter steht die Frage, ob jetzt der historische Niedergang eintritt, den Oswald Spengler mit seinem "Untergang des Abendlandes" vorhergesagt hatte. Europa ist seit Jahrhunderten eine Quelle der ...
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler[a] (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's ...
Spengler’s Context and Milieu Oswald Spengler, the German historian and author of the seminal, two-volume work, Decline of the West or Der Untergang des Abendlandes, was born in 1880 to a conservative, petit bourgeois German family. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1904, after having initially failed his doctoral thesis on Heraclitus because of insufficient references. [1] As his editor Arthur ...
The Decline of the West (German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes; or more literally, The Downfall of the Occident) is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, was published in the summer of 1918. [1] The second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, was published in 1922. [2] The definitive edition of both volumes was published in 1923. [3 ...
Europa steckt in der Krise. Stagnation, Spannungen und Aufrüstung prägen den Kontinent. Steht gar der Untergang des Abendlandes bevor? Die gesamteuropäische Sicherheitslage hat sich verschlechtert.