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US
/ˈspɪŋəɫɝ, ˈspɪŋɫɝ/
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NOUN
- German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)
How To Use Spengler In A Sentence
- The German historian Oswald Spengler argued in his book The Decline of the West (1918-1922) that civilizations, like organisms, go through a cycle of birth, development, and death.
- In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.
- Nowdays, Schweitzer's criticism on Spengler and his reflection on Western culture can inspire us with analyzing the traditional Chinese culture and Western culture more rationally.
- Rather it is the social milieu of the physicists of the Weimar period with its Spenglerian hostility to science and causality that is the cause of their beliefs.
- I'd start with The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, a book that was prophetic in identifying imperialism with cultural decadence and barbarism.
