Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler [a] (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) 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.

Spengler selected the Chinese and Roman Empires as most relevant models for the future and argued that the modern world undergoes the same evolution towards "Caesarism" but now on world-wide scale. The present is the last century of the pre-Imperial age of world history to be followed by the "Imperial Age" with the rise of Caesar.

2025年3月12日 · Oswald Spengler (born May 29, 1880, Blankenburg, Germany—died May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German philosopher whose reputation rests entirely on his influential study Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 2 vol. (1918–22; The Decline of the West), a major contribution to social theory.

2025年1月2日 · Oswald Spengler confronted the progressive theory of history with his own cyclical theory and diagnosed the causes of the West's decline.

2025年3月21日 · When Oswald Spengler wrote Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) in the early 20 th century (1918), he could not foresee that, about a century later, the trajectory of Western culture’s slow demise would assume a very different shape compared to the one he discerned, and that it would happen comparatively rapidly.

Spengler viewed art, warfare, economics, science and religion, along with other customs, as functional expressions of specific cultures. With this approach, Spengler was a predecessor of modern sociobiology and evolutionary anthropology.

In 1924, following the social-economic upheaval of the terrible inflation, Spengler entered the political fray in an effort to bring Reichswehr general Hans von Seekt to power as the country’s leader. But the effort came to naught. Spengler proved totally ineffective in practical politics.

2015年11月22日 · In 1924, following the social-economic upheaval of the terrible inflation, Spengler entered the political fray in an effort to bring Reichswehr general Hans von Seekt to power as the country’s leader. But the effort came to naught. Spengler proved totally ineffective in practical politics.

2018年5月21日 · The German philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) is famous for his Decline of the West. He held that civilizations, like biological organisms, pass through a determinable life cycle and that the modern West was approaching the end of such a cycle.

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