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3 days ago · Oswald Spengler (born May 29, 1880, Blankenburg, Germany—died May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German philosopher whose reputation rests entirely on his influential study Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 2 vol. (1918–22; The Decline of the West), a major contribution to social theory.
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5 days ago · Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and ...
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May 6, 2024 · The West is in terminal decline, desperately trying to revive the dead forms and traditions that animated the Faustian spirit in its exuberant heyday. It is all in vain as the West has become tired of itself and is unable to innovate in either the arts or philosophy.
May 6, 2024 · Estrangement from the West; Culture and administration; Social and economic change; Byzantine decline and subjection to Western influences: 1025–1260. 11th-century weakness; Arrival of new enemies; Alexius I and the First Crusade; Later Comneni; The Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Latin Empire; The empire under the Palaeologi ...
May 14, 2024 · The Decline of the West? - Manfred P. Fleischer 1970 The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler 1945-01-01 The German historian considers all forms and movements of human affairs as he predicts the inevitable eclipse of Western civilization. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler 1926 The Decline of the West, Two Volumes in One - Oswald ...
2 days ago · Bennett co-authored "Trees on the Edge," a report that documents the Douglas fir decline spiral in Southern Oregon. Erik Neumann / JPR Bennett is a retired Oregon State University extension forester.
3 days ago · The Western Empire collapsed in 476, and the Western imperial court in Ravenna disappeared by AD 554, at the end of Justinian 's Gothic War.
