The Decline Of The West Form And Actuality Oswald Spengler by Oswald Spengler 9781912975624, 1912975629 instant download after payment.

The first volume of Oswald Spengler’s
The Decline of the West is a classic milestone in the annals
of historiography. However, it is not a history book in the
traditional sense of recounting events in chronological order.
Instead, it tries to explain the mechanisms that make different
cultures tick. While classical culture had no concept of the past or
future and was only fixated on the present, Western culture is
focused on both the past as memory and the future as unconquered
territory.

Like organisms that are born, mature
and eventually die, cultures are the blossoming youth while
civilizations usher in senility, decay and demise. When a culture
becomes a civilization, decadence sets in and the ensuing downward
spiral becomes a Faustian whirlwind of self-destruction. This is
inevitable as we can see that each culture’s evolution has its
parallels in other periods of human history.

The endgame for the West has already
begun. It is in terminal decline, desperately trying to revive the
dead forms and buried traditions that animated its Promethean spirit
in its youthful heyday of exuberance. But in old age, it all seems
preposterous, and hence in vain as the West has become tired of
itself and unable to innovate in either the arts or philosophy. The
West is on its way to the grave and what will see the light next must
necessarily be something completely new and not just a corpse
reanimated.