Putin, Russia and Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler, in his 1918-24 masterpiece The Decline of the West, borrows from Goethe the concept of “morphology,” which has to do with the study of living forms and the comparison of their internal structures. In this morphological approach, a distinction is made between “homology” and “analogy.” Homologous organs are similar in terms of form, where…