Abstract
Oswald Spengler ranks among important philosophers of the period between the wars. He is known as the author of an original philosophy of history, but also as a sharp critic of the political and social situation in the Weimar Republic. His political views are generally regarded as very conservative and even reactionary, often with strong antidemocratic elements. His main and best-known work is 'The Decline of the West' (1932), which provides a very inspiring, but also a very questionable, view of world history. History in his opinion is not a branch of science; its main role consists in discovering by means of historical analogy new unknown links and in foreseeing the future. Spengler's work was intended to be a sort of comparative "morphology" of the world cultures, predicting an inevitable decline of the existing Western culture, which has achieved a culmination of civilization in the constantly changing universe and thus closes the irreversible natural cycle.