Posted on: 31 January 2013

Digital Rare Book:
The Decline of the West
By Oswald Spengler
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London - 1918

The Decline of the West (German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes), or The Downfall of the Occident, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918. Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, in 1923.

The book introduces itself as a 'Copernican overturning' and rejects the Euro-centric view of history, especially the division of history into the linear "ancient-medieval-modern" rubric.[1] According to Spengler the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms. He acknowledges eight high cultures: Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mexican (Mayan/Aztec), Classical (Greek/Roman), Arabian, Western or "European-American". Cultures have a limited lifespan of some thousand years. The final stage of each culture is, in his word use, a 'civilization'.

The book 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 the theory, the Western world is actually ending and we are witnessing the last season - "winter time" - of the Faustian civilization. In Spengler's depiction Western Man is a proud but tragic figure, for, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached.

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Its a great book with a lot of original thought in it,groundbreking for its time and history seems to prove it right....kate

World War I came as a shock to the Colonial world order... It’s amazing how the world has changed since then. In 1920, Lothrop Stoddard published “The rising tide of color against white world-supremacy .” Some info from his book: The world-wide expansion of whites (European origin) during the four centuries between 1500 and 1900 was the most prodigious phenomenon in all recorded history. In 1500 whites (Europeans) numbered about 70 million, 2 million in England. The “Black Death” had killed 40-50% in the 14th century. The Ottomans were marching across southwestern Europe and Russia was a Tatar dependency. Columbus discovered America In 1492 and Vasco de Gama reached India in 1494, changing Europe’s fortune. In 1800, whites numbered about 160 million, with 150 million in Europe. In 1920 the World population was 1.7 Billion: 550 million white (450 million in Europe, Anglo-Saxons 100 million); 500 million yellow; 450 million brown; 150 million black. Area-wise, 47 million square miles of land had white governments and 6 million square miles had non-white governments. By 1900 the “Nordic” proportion in the US started going down with increased immigration of the Alpine and Mediterranean races (Stoddard’s words). Stoddard was strongly against mixing of these races, leaving aside Asians and Africans. The US Immigration Act of 1924 was passed to keep the Nordic proportion steady and Asians/Africans out. Declining birth rates, European prosperity and the space program resulted in the Immigration Act of 1965, which opened US immigration to the world. http://archive.org/details/risingtideofcolo00stoduoft