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End and Beginning

On the Generations of Cultures and the Origins of the West

by Franz Borkenau

1981 493 pages eng

Another topic of interest for Borkenau was engaging in an intellectual critique of Toynbee and Oswald Spengler's work about when and why civilizations weaken and end. The latter critique was published posthumously by his friend, Richard Löwenthal. In his book, Borkenau drew a distinction between the…

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