FROM TRADITION TO 'CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION': HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY IN OSWALD SPENGLER’S CULTURAL-HISTORICAL THEORY

The purpose of the paper is to consider the ideological background of Oswald Spengler‘s cultural-historical theory in his work The Decline of the West, which influenced the formation of his political views as an ideologist of the German ―conservative revolution‖. The author analyzes the problem of Spengler‘s ideological transition from political and ideological traditionalism to the ideology of ―conservative revolution‖. In the context of the cultural-historical concepts of The Decline of the West the paper reveals the relations between Spengler‘s theoretical and methodological views on the historical process and his political ideas.