During the French Revolution, it was transformed for a time into the Temple of the Goddess of Reason. Is it heading, perhaps, toward yet another religious conversion?
A review of a new novel — a pessimistic account of decadence and decline, and of its possible result — by one of France’s foremost writers:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/02/slouching-toward-mecca/
In 1918 and in 1922, Oswald Spengler published his once very famous two-volume work Der Untergang des Abendlandes (“The Decline of the West”). It was enormously influential for a time. Now it’s mostly forgotten. Should it have been? Was it merely premature?
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