- SPENGLER, Oswald
- (1880-1936)German historian and philosopher whose influential work The Decline of the West (1914-1922) helped set the tone for modern intellectual pessimism and EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY.
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SPENGLER, Oswald
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Spengler, Oswald — born May 29, 1880, Blankenburg, Ger. died May 8, 1936, Munich German philosopher. A schoolmaster before he turned to writing, Spengler is remembered for his influential The Decline of the West, 2 vol. (1918–22), a study in the philosophy of… … Universalium
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