TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spengler,Oswald
AU  - Atkinson,Charles Francis
TI  - The decline of the West
AV  - CB 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Civilization -- History
N1  - 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; Originally published; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344
ER  -