„Declinul Occidentului” în viziunea lui Oswald Spengler
“The decline of the West” in the vision of Oswald Spengler

Summary/Abstract: Oswald Spengler is today an almost forgotten name for the Western academic world. Spengler did not accept the consolidated, linear view of history. Spengler's historical perspective was informed by many philosophers, including Goethe and, to some extent, Nietzsche. According to Spengler, the period of the 1920s–1930s, in which his works appeared, represents the beginning of a long transition from the first period of civilization, that of the domination of money, to Caesarism. He believes that the period of economic supremacy began sometime between 1770 and 1790, an interval rich in events – the beginning of the British industrial revolution, political economy, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. In The Decline of the West Spengler does not describe a catastrophic direction affecting civilization, but a protracted decline - a “twilight” or a “sunset” of it. In the new age, there is no place for any culture, not even for the “Faustian” one, but only for a technical, standardized, artificial world, which has lost any connection with the soil from which Spengler tells us that every “culture” is born.

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