Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark deb

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline o