The Theory Of. Spengler Cultural Crisis

At present, the human being is facing a survival crisis. Virtually, it's a profound culture crisis. Culture is the basic survival manner of human being. The pattern of culture affects and binds the action of people. And culture crisis arises in the historic development process of the pattern of culture. So it is very necessary to research the theory of culture crisis deeply. Because we can get the knowledge about the deep development process of human's culture by the analysis of the culture spirit in culture crisis, and it provides the theory foundation for culture transforming. And Spengler's theory on culture crisis is also a useful exploration.In Spengler's theory on culture crisis, culture is the human being's production. The human being,with the disillusion consciousness, needs to represent himself. And culture is the basis of the representation. In the process of representing himself, the life forms some representative formations and symbol formations that belong to a certain race and make up of culture morphological relationship which as the basic phemomenon of race's life history. Spengler draws a conclusion that culture is an organism. On the one hand, culture is a whole system that is made up of respective component organicly; on the other hand, culture is a process of life experience which is from birth to pullulation , maturity , senescence and death. Culture is a oganism. And it is the destiny of culture. This is the fundamental reason of the appearance of culture crisis. The characteristic of culture in crisis is the prevalence of civilization spirit .And in Spengler's opinion, comprehending this issue can change one's world view completely .Spengler's theory on culture crisis affects culture study and history study profoundly, and inspires the culture transforming in global epoch.