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 much to say to us today. This volume offers a revised selection from Engels=s previous studies on Spengler, which provide a varied and cohesive picture of the work, interpretation, and reception of this great cultural morphologist.