NOUN
- German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)
How To Use Oswald Spengler In A Sentence
- The German historian Oswald Spengler argued in his book The Decline of the West (1918-1922) that civilizations, like organisms, go through a cycle of birth, development, and death.
- I'd start with The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, a book that was prophetic in identifying imperialism with cultural decadence and barbarism.