This book, which recognizes the Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Classical, Arabian, and European-American cultures as the eight "high cultures," claims that the process of "pseudomorphosis" can stop a culture from achieving its potential to become a civilization.
This book notes that Impressionism fulfills Rousseau's prediction of a return to nature and laments that the "modern artist is a workman, not a creator." It claims that the democratic support for popular enlightenment "smooths the path for the coming Caesars of the world." This book, which recognizes the Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Classical, Arabian, and European-American cultures as the eight "high cultures," claims that the process of "pseudomorphosis" can stop a culture from achieving its potential to become a civilization. This book's discussion of race was extended in its author's later The Hour of Decision. The terms Magian, Faustian, and Apollonian describe the world's three great civilizations in this book, which offers a "Copernican" view of history in which civilizations cycle through four phases associated with spring, summer, fall, and winter. For 10 points, name this 1918 book that predicts the waning of the title culture, by Ostwald Spengler.
This book notes that Impressionism fulfills Rousseau's prediction of a return to nature and laments that the "modern artist is a workman, not a creator.
Decline of the West [or Der Untergang des Abendlandes]