TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spengler,Oswald
TI  - Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Erster Band
AV  - CB 
PY  - 2025///
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; Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Untergang_des_Abendlandes; Release date is 2025-10-13; Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; München: C.H. Beck, 1919
N2  - "Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Erster Band" by Oswald Spengler is a philosophical work published in 1918. Spengler proposes a radical theory of history where cultures evolve like organisms, each with lifespans of about a thousand years of flourishing followed by decline. He rejects linear historical progression, arguing that Western civilization has entered its "evening" phase—a period of inevitable decline despite apparent power. Drawing on morphological analysis, he examines eight major cultures and predicts the West's transformation from creative culture to stagnant civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/deruntergangdesa01spen
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77042
ER  -