Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of
the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of
world history and penetrating diagnosis of the crisis of modernity.
This monumental work launched a seminal attack on the idea of
progress and supplanted the outmoded Eurocentric understanding of
history. His provocative pessimism seems to be confirmed in
retrospect by the twentieth-century horrors of economic depression,
totalitarianism, genocide, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the
emerging global environmental crisis.
In Prophet of Decline, John Farrenkopf takes advantage of the
historical perspective the end of the millennium provides to
reassess this visionary thinker and his challenging ideas on world
history and politics and modern civilization. Farrenkopf's
assessment ranges widely, placing Spengler's philosophy in its
intellectual historical context and covering Spengler's ideas on
democracy, capitalism, science and technology, cities, Western art,
social change, and human exploitation of the environment. He also
illuminates the implications of Spengler's thought for
contemplating from a fresh perspective the future of the United
States, the leading power of the West.
Prophet of Decline is highly relevant today as many take the
opportunity at the turn of the century to ponder again the
direction in which humankind and our global community are moving
and approach with concern the uncertain future amid globalization,
hypercomplexity, and accelerating change. An interdisciplinary book
about an interdisciplinary thinker, it is a substantial
contribution to the literature of historical philosophy, political
science, international relations, and German studies.
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