TY - BOOK AU - Spengler,Oswald TI - Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Zweiter 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, Zweiter Band" by Oswald Spengler is the second volume of a philosophical work published in 1922. Subtitled "Perspectives of World History," it continues Spengler's radical theory that civilizations evolve like organisms through predictable life cycles. He argues that Western civilization has entered its "winter" phase—a period of decline following cultural flourishing. Rejecting linear historical progress, Spengler proposes that cultures rise, mature, and inevitably fall, with the West now approaching its sunset despite apparent power. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/deruntergangdesa01spen UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77043 ER -