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While tracing the path of conservative revolutionism, it would be impossible not to mention Oswald Spengler, one of the cornerstones of this movement. Spengler’s understanding of history and his predictions about civilizations are still debated today.
Since it is very common in Brazil for any debate to come very late in the day, there is now a debate on whether Brazil is “Western” or not. Some great Brazilians, ahead of their time, such as Gilberto Freyre, Darcy Ribeiro, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Plínio Salgado, among others, considered it obvious that Brazil was part of a “Latin American” civilisation (I have already explained in another text why I rejected this term in favour of “Ibero-American”) and no other.
Constantin has recently produced a number of translations of Spengler’s works. This includes a revision of the Charles Francis Atkinson translation of The Decline of the West and two recent translations of Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism and his previously untranslated work Early Days of World History.
Constantly described as a “prophet of decline,” Oswald Spengler deserves to be read today before all as the author of a deeply original philosophy of history, which perhaps doesn't permit us to automatically predict the future (how would that be p
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