p2022 Reprint of VOLUME ONE of the 1926 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This volume, subtitled emForm and Actualityem, comprises the first volume of Spengler's monumental treatise on the Decline of the West. emThe Decline of the West emwas very well received upon publication and was widely read by German intellectuals. It has been suggested that it intensified a sense of crisis in Germany following the end of World War I. The critic George Steiner has suggested that the work can be seen as one of several books that resulted from the crisis of German culture following Germany's defeat in World War I, comparable in this respect to the philosopher Ernst Bloch's emThe Spirit of Utopiaem 1918, the theologian Franz Rosenzweig's emThe Star of Redemptionem 1921, the theologian Karl Barth's emThe Epistle to the Romansem 1922 and the philosopher Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 1927. Illustrated with three folding plates.pp What A