Was Spengler Right After All?

Was Spengler Right After All?
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Bert Olivier
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Commentary
When Oswald Spengler wrote “Untergang des Abendlandes” (“The Decline of the West”) in the early 20th century (1918), he could not foresee that, about a century later, the trajectory of Western culture’s slow demise would assume a very different shape compared to the one he discerned, and that it would happen comparatively rapidly.
Bert Olivier
Bert Olivier
Author
Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, Literature, cinema, architecture, and Aesthetics. His current project is “Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.”
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