01795cam a22003253u 4500 72344 UtSlPG 20260610134655.0 m cr n 260607r20231926utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 CB Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936 The decline of the West Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2023 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West Release date is 2023-12-06 Tim Lindell, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and Actuality" by Oswald Spengler is a philosophical work published in 1918. Spengler rejects traditional linear history, proposing instead that civilizations are organic entities with thousand-year lifespans. Cultures flourish and create, then become civilizations marked by military expansion and intellectual stagnation, before inevitably declining. He argues that Western civilization has entered its "winter" phase—a protracted sunset similar to Rome's fall. Through morphological analysis inspired by Goethe, Spengler identifies eight major cultures and charts their rise and decline across history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926 Civilization -- History Atkinson, Charles Francis, 1880-1960 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344 113069 113069