Democracy pluralism the separation of Church and State and even some of the institutions that upheld the post-1945 global order are enduring a crisis of confidence. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Faith in 'Western values' appears to be waning fast. And the American President is less than enthusiastic about postwar traditions of Western unity. Sociologist Max Weber hoped for charismatic leadership to. Far-right populism is on a roll across Europe. Other articles where The Decline of the West is discussed: 20th-century international relations: The search for a new stability: Oswald Spengler’s 191822 best-seller The Decline of the West mourned the engulfing of Kultur by the cosmopolitan anthill of Zivilisation and argued that only a dictatorship could arrest the decline. Was he simply wrong that the West was sinking, or was he ahead of the curve? After all, he warned of Asian countries seizing on Western technology, and foresaw a great future for Russia, provided it turns its face against the weakening West. So in this programme, the BBC's Media Editor Amol Rajan rediscovers this lonely scholar, pacing his Munich flat as Germany fell apart - and sets out to see what Spengler has to tell us about today. Yet in the decades that followed, Nazism led nowhere but destruction - and in its wake, a liberal version of the West came to dominate the world. Its vision of the Rome-like fall of the Occident had a huge impact - not least on the Nazis. A century ago, the historian Oswald Spengler's melancholy prophecy, The Decline of the West, captivated a Germany on the verge of calamity.
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