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Oswald Spengler

Philosopher · German · 19th–20th c.

German philosopher (1880–1936). In his major work The Decline of the West (1918–22) he argued by analogy to organisms that civilisations follow a cycle of birth, maturity, and death, predicting the terminal decline of Western civilisation. A major thinker of the Weimar Republic era whose prophetic pessimism attracted both admiration and controversy.