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100 1 _aSpengler, Oswald,
_d1880-1936
245 1 4 _aThe decline of the West
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
500 _aRelease date is 2023-12-06
508 _aTim Lindell, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: George Allen & Unwin, 1926
653 _aCivilization -- History
700 1 _aAtkinson, Charles Francis,
_d1880-1960
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344
999 _c113069
_d113069