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The Idea of Decline in Western History
Language: en
Pages: 538
Authors: Arthur Herman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Enth.: "Historical and Cultural Pessimism. Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche" (S. 76-108).
The Decline of the West
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Oswald Spengler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark deb
The Idea of Decline in Western History
Language: en
Pages: 652
Authors: Arthur Herman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-15 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology
The Cave and the Light
Language: en
Pages: 933
Authors: Arthur Herman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-22 - Publisher: Random House

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The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the anci
Prophet of Decline
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: John Farrenkopf
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and penetrating diag