Oswald Spengler

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German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)

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A Time review of The Hour of Decision noted his international popularity as a polemicist, observing that "When Oswald Spengler speaks, many a Western Worldling stops to listen". Source: Internet

Gini shared the view held by Oswald Spengler that populations go through a cycle of birth, growth, and decay. Source: Internet

There is another strain of thought generally associated with a pessimistic worldview, this is the pessimism of cultural criticism and social decline which is seen in Oswald Spengler 's ' The Decline of the West '. Source: Internet

While in prison he wrote "Anti-Spengler", a critical attack on Oswald Spengler 's " Decline of the West ". Source: Internet

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