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  • '' 'Oswald Spengler' '' (1880-1936) was a German historian whose '' Der Untergang des Abendlandes, '' (translated as '' Decline of the West '') (1918-22) was a very influential study of the cyclical nature of western civilization that strengthened the pessimism of the 1920s.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few hundred miles to the north, Tim Pawlenty broke away from a fishing expedition for a few hours to reacquaint himself with Oswald Spengler's prescient 1918 volume, "The Decline of the West."

    Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

  • Sounding like Oswald Spengler whom he in fact alludes to, Mr. Reynolds sees retromania as the leading edge of a fin de siècle cultural morbidity.

    When the Music Stopped Michael Azerrad 2011

  • The empire, as Oswald Spengler would lament centuries later, “was destroyed like a sunflower whose head is struck off by one passing.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • The empire, as Oswald Spengler would lament centuries later, “was destroyed like a sunflower whose head is struck off by one passing.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Hayek devotes an entire chapter in The Road to Serfdom to “The Socialist Roots of Naziism” describing then important, but now forgotten German socialist thinkers like Werner Sombart, Johann Plenge and Paul Lensch, who Hayek argues provided the leading ideas for the thinkers so important to the National Socialists like Oswald Spengler (who is still worth reading) and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (well forgotten).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010

  • Hayek devotes an entire chapter in The Road to Serfdom to “The Socialist Roots of Naziism” describing then important, but now forgotten German socialist thinkers like Werner Sombart, Johann Plenge and Paul Lensch, who Hayek argues provided the leading ideas for the thinkers so important to the National Socialists like Oswald Spengler (who is still worth reading) and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (well forgotten).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010

  • In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler argues that all civilizations eventually fizzle out.

    Lise Van Susteren: Moms United Lise Van Susteren 2010

  • In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler argues that all civilizations eventually fizzle out.

    Lise Van Susteren: Moms United 2010

  • I presume you have read the famous book "Decline Of The West" by Oswald Spengler, written a hundred years ago.

    Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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