Sunset of the Western world. In 2 volumes. Spengler O.

The figure of Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) stands apart in the history of German and world thought. Spengler tried alone to rethink the generally accepted views on the evolutionary development of mankind: he opposed a linear description of history as an endless irreparable progress. Instead, he proposed the concept of cyclic development, according to which new crops arise, experience the heyday, and then pass through the stages of decline and death. Each such cycle lasts about a thousand years, each culture has distinctive features that determine the thinking and actions of people. The very name of the work contains the thesis that was justified in the book - at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, the culture of the Western world, according to Spengler, came to the period of decline.

The first volume of the book was published in 1918, brought the author more fame and caused hot discussions. This work had a significant impact on the scientists-sociologists of Aroger Joseph Toynbi, Pitirim Sorokin, Jose Ortehu-i-Gasseta.