**Oswald Spengler - The Decline of the West** https://files.catbox.moe/lhtl8k.jpg >"*Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations of the background and origins of our civilization. He chose his main title in 1912, finished the first draft of "Form and Actuality" ("Gestalt und Wirklichkeit") two years later, and published the volume in 1918. The second, extensively revised edition, from which the present translation was made, appeared in 1923. The concluding volume, "Perspectives of World-History" ("Welthistorische Perspektiven"), was published in 1922. The Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1906 (Vol. I) and 1928 (Vol. II).* > >*For many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich. thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies - the collecting of pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Moliere, and taking occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Munich three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday.*" > >___ > >https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Decline_of_the_West >"*Spengler introduces his book as a "Copernican overturning" involving the rejection of the Eurocentric view of history, especially the division of history into the linear "ancient-medieval-modern" rubric. According to Spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms. He recognizes at least eight high cultures: Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mesoamerican (Mayan/Aztec), Classical (Greek/Roman), Arabian, and Western or "European-American". Cultures have a lifespan of about a thousand years of flourishing, and a thousand years of decline. The final stage of each culture is, in his word use, a "civilization".* > >*Spengler also presents the idea of Muslims, Jews and Christians, as well as their Persian and Semitic forebears, being 'Magian'; Mediterranean cultures of the antiquity such as Ancient Greece and Rome being 'Apollonian'; and the modern Westerners being 'Faustian'.* > >*According to Spengler, the Western world is ending and we are witnessing the last season—"winter time"—of Faustian Civilization. In Spengler's depiction, Western Man is a proud but tragic figure because, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached.*" > >___ >**Volumes 1 & 2: Complete Edition** >https://1lib.us/book/5205817/c0e2c2 > >- PDF1 (6mb): https://1lib.us/book/3677506/290e47 >- PDF2 (6mb): https://files.catbox.moe/2ri5q0.pdf >- EPUB1 (1mb): https://1lib.us/book/5205817/c0e2c2 >- EPUB2 (1mb): https://files.catbox.moe/f8l9rn.epub > >___ > >**Volume 1: Form And Actuality** > >Full Color Scan >https://archive.org/details/declineofwest01spenuoft > >- PDF1 (34mb): https://archive.org/download/declineofwest01spenuoft/declineofwest01spenuoft.pdf >- PDF2 (34mb): https://files.catbox.moe/diq006.pdf > >Regular B&W Scan >https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57913/page/n3/mode/2up > >- PDF1 (23mb): https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.57913/2015.57913.Decline-Of-The-West-From-And-Actuality.pdf >- PDF2 (34mb): https://files.catbox.moe/jvqkmx.pdf > >___ > >**Volume 2: Perspectives of World-History** > >Regular B&W Scan >https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18142 > >- PDF1 (58mb): https://archive.org/download/dli.bengal.10689.18142/10689.18142.pdf >- PDF2 (58mb): https://files.catbox.moe/gqrhak.pdf > >___