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Poetry clair huffakers profiles of the american west. The author, like you, thinks that war is in decline. When published in 1918, the decline was a worldwide success and resulted in much comment from intellectuals of the time and later. I read spenglers the decline of the west more than two decades ago.
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If sketchy in other regards, brother west is never anything but expansive on how cornel west feels about cornel west. I have owned this paperback for over 46 years and finally committed to reading it but after a third of the way through i ended up skimming. The decline of the west 2 volumes by oswald spengler, used. I know that i should get more likeminded friends, but i feel like thats quite hard before going to college. Have you read the decline of the west, and what is it about. Spengler probes the origin and fate of our civilization, presenting a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of cultures.