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Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
..., Oswald ( 1880–1936 ) German historian and philosopher of history . Spengler was educated at various universities, and gained his doctorate with a thesis on Heraclitus . His fame depends entirely on Der Untergang des Abendlandes ( 1918 , trs. as The Decline of the West , 1932 ), whose oracular pessimism captured the mood of Germany after the First World War. Spengler saw history not as a linear progression, but as the flowering of a number (either nine or ten) of self-contained cultures, each with a characteristic spiritual tone, or...
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Encyclopedia of Semiotics
..., Oswald ( 1880–1936 ), German historian and political theorist, author of the two‐volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes , 1918 , 1922 ). Though not a semiotician in any strict sense, Spengler is noteworthy for attempting in The Decline of the West , which was subtitled “Sketch Toward a Morphology of History,” to give a totalizing account of world history based on morphological principles. Spengler was born in Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains. Trained as a mathematician, he gave up a Realgymnasium teaching position to become...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
..., Oswald ( 1880–1936 ) 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 grammar-school teacher until 1911 , when he devoted himself full-time to his own writings. His famous work Der Untergang des Abendlandes (2 vols, 1918–22 ; translated as The Decline of the West , 1926–28 ), appearing at the end of World War I, appeared highly relevant to Spengler's contemporaries. He spoke of the inevitable decline of all previous...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
..., Oswald ( 1880–1936 ) Started his adult life as a schoolteacher but a small inheritance allowed him to live independently. His most famous work Decline of the West (1919) owed a great deal to the earlier arguments of the Russian cultural theorist Nikolai Danilevsky . Spengler argued that all civilizations followed a similar lifecycle of birth, maturity, and death. Human history, then, shows a sequence of cultures following each other as each reaches the end of its natural life and is overtaken by another. He saw himself living in the period of...
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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
..., Oswald (Blankenburg, 1880–1936 , Munich), a historical philosopher, moved after a brief career as a teacher in Hamburg ( 1908–11 ) to Munich, where he spent the rest of his life as a writer and private scholar. He is chiefly known for Der Untergang des Abendlandes (2 vols., 1918–22 , reissued 1969 ), which has affinities to attitudes associated with fin de siècle . Spengler prophesied the decline of the Western world and the corresponding rise of Asiatic and African powers. He was influenced in his theory of the history of civilization by J. G. ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...0Oswald Oswald Spengler 1880 – 1936 German historian Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the working class. The Hour of Decision (1933) capitalism of the working class capitalism of the working...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...0Oswald Oswald Spengler 1880 – 1936 German philosopher . In his book The Decline of the West (1918–22) he argues that civilizations undergo a seasonal cycle of a thousand years and are subject to growth and decay analogous to biological species Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. The Hour of Decision (1933) socialism nothing but capitalism capitalism of lower classes capitalism of lower classes capitalism of lower ...
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Blish, James (1921–75) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...James ( 1921–75 ) American author. His ‘Cities in Flight’ sequence (collected 1970 ) explores the theories of cyclic history of the historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler ( 1880–1936 ). A Case of Conscience ( 1958 ) considers the implications for religious belief of the discovery of apparently sinless aliens. Doctor Mirabilis ( 1964 ) is a historical novel featuring the 13th‐century theologian/scientist Roger Bacon...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...James ( 1921–75 ) American author , born in New Jersey, later resident in the UK. Stories and novels published from 1950 and collected ( 1970 ) as the ‘Cities in Flight’ sequence explore the theories of cyclic history of the historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler ( 1880–1936 ). A Case of Conscience ( 1958 ) considers the implications for religious belief of the discovery of apparently sinless aliens. Doctor Mirabilis ( 1964 ) is a historical novel featuring the 13th‐century theologian/scientist Roger Bacon . Blish's fanzine columns as...
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Encyclopedia of Semiotics
...dissemination of biological theories in works such as D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form ( 1917 ), as well as to Oswald Spengler's influential account of “Morphology of History” in The Decline of the West ( 1918–1922 ), which attempted to conceive of the totality of world history in terms of recurrent organic patterns. Carol O. Sauer's “Morphology of Landscape” ( 1926 ) founded the study of geography in America by applying Spengler's method to the study of landforms. Vladimir Propp , in Morphology of the Folktale ( 1928 ), a key text of the...
