Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler is regarded as one of the founders of the comparatist approach to history, and yet in modern scholarship he is often reduced to the catchphrase ?decline of the West= and interpreted exclusively in the light of political developments in the Weimar Republic. David Engels has been attempting for many years to provide a more comprehensive picture of Spengler & as a historian and source of inspiration for Western cultural history and as a forecaster whose analyses and fears still have ...