The decline of the West /

• Main Author: Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936 (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Werner, Helmut (επιμελητής.), Helps, Arthur (επιμελητής.), Atkinson, Charles Francis (μεταφραστής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University press, 1991.
• Series: Oxford paperbacks (Oxford University Press)
• Subjects: Πολιτισμός > Ιστορία.

 Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography. 

 Introduction -- The meaning of numbers -- The problem of world-history -- Makrokosmos: the symbolism of the world-picture and the space problem -- Makrokosmos: Apollinian, Faustian and Magian soul -- Music and plastic: the arts of form -- Music and plastic: act and portrait -- Soul-image and life-feeling: on the form of the soul -- Soul-image and life-feeling: Buddhism, stoicism, socialism -- Faustian and Apollinian nature-knowledge -- Origin and landscape: the cosmic and the microcosm. Origin and landscape: the group of the higher cultures -- Cities and peoples -- Problems of the Arabian culture: historic pseudomorphoses -- Problems of the Arabian culture: the Magian soul -- Problems of the Arabian culture: Pythagoras, Mohammed, Cromwell -- The state: the problem of the estates -- State and history -- Philosophy of politics -- The form-world of economic life: money -- The form-world of economic life: the machine.