Der Untergang des Abendlandes
The critic George Steiner has suggested that can be seen as one of several books that resulted from the crisis of German culture following Germany's defeat in World War I, comparable in this respect to the philosopher Ernst Bloch's "The Spirit of Utopia" (1918), the historian Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West" (1918), the theologian Franz Rosenzweig's "The Star of Redemption" (1921), the theologian Karl Barth's "The Epistle to the Romans" (1922), and the philosopher Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927).