The Decline of the West (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Spengler, Oswald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394604881 ISBN 13: 9780394604886

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1980

Synopsis

DIFFERENT OFFER (see picture by BookGems): Edition George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1928. Authorized translation with notes by Charles Francis Atkinson. Two volumes in one: Vol. I - Form and Actuality (428 + XXXI pages) & Vol. II - Perspectives of World History (507 + XXXII pages). Large size: 6.75"x9.75". Rare copy of the early edition. Dust cover missing. Other than that the whole book remains in good condition: binding tight. text all clean, neat and tight. The book appears to be well maintained. Prompt dispatch from UK

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Review

" Provocative and often dazzling. . . . An exciting excursion through history." - "Time"
" Audacious, profound . . . exciting and magnificent."
- "The New Republic
"" This grand panorama, this imaginative sweep, this staggering erudition, this Nietzschean prose, with its fine color and ringing force, mark a work that must endure." - "The New York Sun
"
" With monumental learning . . . Spengler surveys man's cosmic march. . . . Always forceful . . . eloquent."
- "The New York Times
"

"Provocative and often dazzling. . . . An exciting excursion through history." -"Time"
"Audacious, profound . . . exciting and magnificent."
-"The New Republic
""This grand panorama, this imaginative sweep, this staggering erudition, this Nietzschean prose, with its fine color and ringing force, mark a work that must endure." -"The New York Sun
"
"With monumental learning . . . Spengler surveys man's cosmic march. . . . Always forceful . . . eloquent."
-"The New York Times
"

Provocative and often dazzling. . . . An exciting excursion through history. Time
Audacious, profound . . . exciting and magnificent.
The New Republic
This grand panorama, this imaginative sweep, this staggering erudition, this Nietzschean prose, with its fine color and ringing force, mark a work that must endure. The New York Sun

With monumental learning . . . Spengler surveys man s cosmic march. . . . Always forceful . . . eloquent.
The New York Times
"

About the Author

Oswald Spengler, one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century, was born in Blankenburg, Germany, in 1880. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history in Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor s thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations of the background and origins of our civilization. Spengler chose his main title in 1912, finished a draft of the first volume two years later, and published it in 1918. The second, concluding volume was published in 1922. The Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1926 (Vol. 1) and 1928 (Vol. 2); this abridged edition was first published here in 1962.
For many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich, thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies collecting pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, and reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Moliere. He took occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. In 1936, three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday, he died in Munich of a heart attack."

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0394604881
• ISBN 13: 9780394604886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English