The German historian Oswald Spengler considered our age the age of abstraction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in programming, where abstraction isn’t just a conceptual convenience but an ...

The dismal prediction sounded by Oswald Spengler in “The Decline ... “There were no opponents,” Wood quotes Spengler as saying, “with cooling afterthoughts for his enthusiasm over the ...

THE HOUR OF DECISION—Oswald Spengler—Knopf ($2.50). When Oswald Spengler speaks, many a Western Worldling stops to listen. His monumental Decline of the West galvanized the attention of ...

OSWALD SPENGLER’S Decline of the West was an important contribution to the philosophy of history. It was a remarkable achievement to produce a ponderous two-volume work which it was a strenuous ...

A century ago, the historian Oswald Spengler's melancholy prophecy, The Decline of the West, captivated a Germany on the verge of calamity. Its vision of the Rome-like fall of the Occident had a ...

In a gloomy but strangely enthralling book published at the end of the First World War, the historian and polymath Oswald Spengler wrote of the decline of the West, arguing that Europe was moving ...

Oswald Spengler wrote, in The Decline of the West (1922), of the English being bound by a “wordless harmony of national pulse”. This phrase gestures to the essence of national identity ...