Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈʃpɛŋlɐ]; 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art and their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work, The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering world 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. Spengler predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency whose countering would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse. Spengler is regarded as a nationalist and an anti-democrat, and he was a prominent member of the Conservative Revolution. Consequently, he criticised Nazism due to its excessive racialist elements. He saw Benito Mussolini, and entrepreneurial types, like the mining magnate Cecil Rhodes, as examples of the impending Caesars of Western culture, notwithstanding his stark criticism of Mussolini's imperial adventures.He strongly influenced other historians, including Franz Borkenau and especially Arnold J. Toynbee and other successors including Francis …
Oswald Spengler
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奥斯瓦尔德 斯宾格勒, 오스발트 슈펭글러, Освальд Шпэнглер, and 51 others
Osval'd Shpengler, O Shpengler, オスヴァルト・シュペングラー, ოსვალდ შპენგლერი, شبنجلر، أوزفالد،, اشبنجلر، أسوالد،, Osvalʹd Špengler, Oswald Spengler, Osvald Špehgler, Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler, Osvald Špengler, Օսվալդ Շպենգլեր, Осwалд Спенглер, Spengler, شپنجلر، اسوالد, シュペングラア, 奥斯瓦尔德・斯宾格勒, 奧斯瓦爾德 . 斯賓格勒, O. Špengler, Şpingler, Uswāld Išpinglir, أسوالد اشبنغلر،, Osvalds Špenglers, 斯賓格勒, Osvald Şpenqler, Sibin'gele, オスヴァルト シュペングラー, אוסוואלד שפנגלר, Όσβαλντ Σπένγκλερ, Шпенглер, ئۆسڤالد شپێنگلەر, Osvald Shpengler, 奧斯瓦爾德·斯賓格勒, Shibingele, Osowald Spengler, O. Shpengler, オスワルド スペングラー, اشپنجلر، اسوالد, .. Shupengurā, Osvalʹd Shpengler, Ssu-pin-ko-le, О Шпенглер, Aosiwa'erde Sibin'gele, אוסולד שפנגלר, シュペングラー、オスヴァルト, أوسفالد شبينغلر, اسوالد اشپنگلر, 史賓格勒, Освальд Шпенглер, Освалд Шпенглер, Osvaldus Spengler - Born:
- Aug. 26, 1880
- Died:
- Aug. 26, 1936
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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈʃpɛŋlɐ]; 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art and their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work, The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering world 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. Spengler predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency whose countering would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse. Spengler is regarded as a nationalist and an anti-democrat, and he was a prominent member of the Conservative Revolution. Consequently, he criticised Nazism due to its excessive racialist elements. He saw Benito Mussolini, and entrepreneurial types, like the mining magnate Cecil Rhodes, as examples of the impending Caesars of Western culture, notwithstanding his stark criticism of Mussolini's imperial adventures.He strongly influenced other historians, including Franz Borkenau and especially Arnold J. Toynbee and other successors including Francis Parker Yockey, Carroll Quigley, and Samuel P. Huntington. John Calvert notes that Spengler's critique of the West is popular with Islamists.
