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Arnold Toynbee
(1889–1975),historian. His great work A Study of History (10 vols, 1934–54) is a survey of the chief civilizations of the world, and an enquiry into cycles of creativity and decay. His view that the ...
Georg Henrik von Wright
(1916–2003)Finnish philosopher and successor of Wittgenstein in his chair in Cambridge. Von Wright was born in Helsinki, and attended the university there. Attracted to logical positivism, he visited ...
morphology
1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words: see also morpheme; compare syntax.2. More generally, the study of the forms of things, as in Propp's Morphology of the Folktale (1928): ...
Philosophy of History
Reflection upon the nature of history, or of historical thinking. The term was used in the 18th century (e.g. by Voltaire) to mean critical historical thinking, as opposed to the mere collection and ...
Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
(Blankenburg, 1880–1936, Munich),
a historical philosopher, moved after a brief career as a teacher in Hamburg (1908–11)
Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
(1880–1936),
German historian and political theorist, author of the two‐volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
German philosopher of history.
Spengler was educated at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Halle, completing in 1904 a PhD thesis on Heraclitus. He worked as a ...
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