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    Spengler's Prussian Socialism

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    Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was one of the most significant thinkers of the Weimar Republic, Germany’s first democracy. His work, notably the two-volume, 1200-page Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Decline of the West, 1918/22), had a profound influence on the intellectual discourses of the time in Germany and beyond. 1 Yet, despite the high esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries, his thought has been seriously under-researched. In English, only four major studies have appeared in the last 70 years. 2 This is all the more surprising in that the historical period in which he wrote has been extensively covered by both English- and German-language scholars and that some of the thinkers who drew critically on his ideas, such as Heidegger and Adorno, have become household names in Germany intellectual history

    Eugen Rosenstock - Huessys "EuropÀische Revolutionen"

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    Wehler H-U. Eugen Rosenstock - Huessys "EuropĂ€ische Revolutionen". In: Felken D, ed. Ein Buch, das mein Leben verĂ€ndert hat. MĂŒnchen: Beck; 2007: 438-440
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