Spenglerian
- noun
- /ˌspɛŋˈɡlɛr.i.ən/
Examples
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From a Spenglerian viewpoint, Misericordia is a work created soon after the transition from the epoch of Culture to the epoch of Civilization.
Academic text (1992) -
The compulsiveness of the Spenglerian translation industry in Russia circa 1922 is alone testimony to the Russian intelligentsia's tremendous fascination with the controversial German writer.
Academic text (2000) -
"There is," an angry DeVoto told his readers, "a striking correspondence between the Spenglerian description of America as a decadent mechanized mass of festering foolishness and the description of America embodied in American literature of the 1920s."
Academic text (2010) -
Many scholars identify as Spenglerian because they believe his theories explain the current political climate.
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In discussions about the fall of empires, a Spenglerian approach highlights the cyclical nature of history.
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As a Spenglerian, she often references the patterns of rise and decline in great civilizations.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spenglerian (as a noun) names someone who follows the ideas of the German thinker Spengler, who believed that cultures 'rise and fall' in long cycles. So a Spenglerian is a person who expects empires and societies to eventually decline.
