Oswald Spengler: A Critical Estimate

by H. Stuart Hughes

Book Overview

Since its publication in 1918, Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West has been the object of academic controversy and opprobrium. In their efforts to dispose of it, scholars have resorted to a variety of tactics: bitter invective, icy scorn, urbane mockery, or simply pretending that the book is not there. Yet generations of readers have refused to be warned off, finding in Spengler a prophetic voice and a source of profound intellectual excitement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560005769
• ISBN13: 9781560005766
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"