Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.
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Background
- Born in
- Blankenburg
- Educated at
- Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Alois Riehl
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"The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of "Vive la nation" in the September mass…"
"If by "democracy" we mean the form which the Third Estate as such wishes to impart to public life as a whole, it must be concluded that democracy and plutocracy are the same thing under the two aspect…"
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1880
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Birth1936
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