![]() ![]() "With monumental learning.Spengler surveys man's cosmic march.Always forceful.eloquent. "This grand panorama, this imaginative sweep, this staggering erudition, this Nietzschean prose, with its fine color and ringing force, mark a work that must endure." - The New York Sun ![]() It makes available in one volume a masterpiece of grand-scale history and far-reaching prophecy that remains essential reading for anyone interested in the factors that determine the course of civilations. This abridgment presents the most significant of Oswald Spengler's arguments, linked by illuminating explanatory passages. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishing informed, thrillingly controversial work that advances a worldview based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. In The Decline of the West, Spengler compares European conditions with the later years of Hellenistic Greece and the Roman Republic, ending about the time of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. ![]()
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