THE DECLINE OF THE WEST

The DECLINE OF THE WEST is the English title of a book by the late Oswald Spengler, that I read while in college and which made a great impression on me in several aspects and which has been ignored by historians and scholars who tend to prefer Arnold Toynbee's A STUDY IN HISTORY and his particular theories,etc. Although Spengler was sort of 'grabbed' by the Nazis and 'wooed' apparently by Hitler,according to some, Spengler in actuality despised Hitler and the overtures made in his direction but this did not stop others from attributing to Spengler Racist and Nazi Ideas, just as it did in attributing the Philosophy of Nietsche as being the actual foundation of Nazism to a great extent. We also should mention that the German Philosopher, Heidigger was also a member of the Nazi Party,etc. and that JUNG, one of the founders of the three schools of Psychoanalysis, also 'toyed' with Nazi and racial ideas,though he tried to repudiate his early consideration of such. To understand the intellectual appeal of Nazism to persons who supposedly should have known better, we have to examine their lives and philosophy,etc.