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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780049010086
Format: Import
ISBN: 0049010085
Label: Allen & U
Manufacturer: Allen & U
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 1932-12
Publisher: Allen & U
Studio: Allen & U

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Rating: - Abridged, but worthwhile.
Most of the negative comments concerning this most remarkable book are directed at the abridgement, not the book itself. I found nothing in the abridgement offensive or distorting. The introduction is terrible and does, in fact, betray a deep misunderstanding of Spengler. But I was able to read the abridgement with pleasure (in a day, too) and then go out and buy the two-volume hardcover edition later on. Now nearly ten years later I still find Spengler the most insightful historian that has ... Read More

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Rating: - The Crisis of Modern Man and Civilization
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Rating: - A complete vision
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Rating: - The Decline of the West (Abridged)
A facinating and richly detailed study of the fall of civilisation and the structures that support it.

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Rating: - Deadened and Guttered.
I had the misfortune to wait and waste 40$ on this book.Abridgments like translations can be very destructive.
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