In certain social areas, he was praised as a political, literary, and cultural genius, and in others he was deeply despised. His masterpiece was published in 1918 as well as 1922 and Spengler face a wide ranged criticism. The Decline of the Westįirst, Oswald Spengler authored several articles in magazine’s and newspaper’s culture sections and started working on ‘ The Decline of the West‘ in 1911. Spengler originally planned on becoming a teacher, but after inheriting a large amount of money from his mother, he began his career as a writer. During his years in school and university, Oswald Spengler’s most significant influences were Ernst Haeckel, Hans Vaihinger, and Friedrich Nietzsche. After high school he decided to enroll at the universities of Halle, Munich, and Berlin studying philosophy, mathematics, and nature science. 423–24 Oswald Spengler – Early YearsĪlready in his early life Oswald Spengler was highly interested in historical events and he used his vivid fantasy to design fictional states into smallest details.
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. “What the myth of Götterdämmerung signified of old, the irreligious form of it, the theory of Entropy, signifies to-day-world’s end as completion of an inwardly necessary evolution.” He proposed a new theory, according to which the lifespan of civilizations is limited and ultimately they decay. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West ( Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 19, covering all of world history.
On May 29, 1880, German historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was born.
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