![]() In 1936, three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday, he died in Munich of a heart attack. He took occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. 2) this abridged edition was first published here in 1962.įor many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich, thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies-collecting pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, and reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Molière. in 1904, after having initially failed his doctoral thesis on Heraclitus because of insufficient references. ![]() The Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1926 (Vol. Oswald Spengler, the German historian and author of the seminal, two-volume work, Decline of the West or Der Untergang des Abendlandes, was born in 1880 to a conservative, petit bourgeois German family. The second, concluding volume was published in 1922. ![]() Spengler chose his main title in 1912, finished a draft of the first volume two years later, and published it in 1918. In 1918, Spengler published the first volume of his two-volume master work, The Decline of the West (1918-1922). The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations of the background and origins of our civilization. 2) this abridged edition was first published here in 1962. 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 Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1926 (Vol. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history in Munich and Berlin. ![]() Oswald Spengler, one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century, was born in Blankenburg, Germany, in 1880. ![]()
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