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‘Nineteen-nineteen was the “Spengler year”. Everyone seemed to be reading him; everyone was wondering just who he was.’ Within eight years of its publication in 1919, sales of The Decline of the West had reached one hundred thousand copies (Hughes, 1952: 89). Why did this weighty and complex tome excite so much interest in the years following the World War I? One of its attractions was that it purported to explain the turbulent past; but it also claimed to forecast the future of the West.
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O'Hagan, J. (2002). Faust in the Twilight: Conceptions of the West in Oswald Spengler. In: Conceptualizing the West in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403907523_4
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