... , into a series of internal monologues, in which ideas and emotions from different periods of time bubble up randomly 14. Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936); German high school teacher; published The Decline of the West (1918), which quickly became an international sensation; according to Spengler, every culture experiences a life cycle of growth and decline and Western civilization was in its old age, and death was ... ...

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... what is happening in the world, i.e. - wars and destruction, and ultimately our end. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" was published in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), a few years after Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, which appeared just after the close of World War I and the Balfour Declaration (1917). In a long note on the widening "gyre" (line 1) mentioned in the ... ...

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... not died, and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had created a school of idealistic historians. Other philosophical views were reflected in general theories, some of the later figures being Oswald Spengler, Benedetto Croce, and Arnold Toynbee. The theories of Karl Marx not only set in motion a continuing series of interpretations of history from the Marxist economic point of view but also ... ...

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