Quote by Oswald Spengler on the Last Man of the World-City

„The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.“

Oswald SpenglerOswald Spengler on collective existence in the world-city and the last man's loss of will to live as a type.
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Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher, known for his theory of cultural cycles and his work ‚The Decline of the West‘.

This quote by Oswald Spengler discusses collective existence in the modern world-city and its impact on individual will to live and fear of death.


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Oswald Spengler quote about the last man of the world-city and collective existence

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was a German cultural historian and philosopher. He gained fame with his work ‚The Decline of the West,‘ in which he portrayed history as a cyclical process of rising and falling cultures. Spengler critically analyzed the cultural and political circumstances in Germany after World War I, influencing political and cultural debates during the Weimar Republic.

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