title: Between Evolutionary and Container Concept: Western Self-Assertions, German Westernizers, and the Spatialization of Political Thought
abstract: German Westernizers, and the Spatialization of Political ThoughtFor several years now,c ommentators have been pondering "the end of Western hegemonies."It is ah allmark of the discourse on "the West," however,t hat the concept proves useful even, and perhapse specially, when commentators lament its decline.As Oswald Spengler's1 918 bestseller TheD ecline of the West indicates, the history of "the West" has alwaysa lso been the story of an ever-ending end.Books abound that see a "post-Western wor