History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-II)
Who out of the following challenged the idea/belief of Eurocentrism?
AOswald Spengler ✓ Correct
BEdward Gibbon
CLeopold von Ranke
DThomas Carlyle
Correct answer: (A) Oswald Spengler — It was Oswald Spengler, so the answer is Oswald Spengler.
Explanation
★It was Oswald Spengler, so the answer is Oswald Spengler.
★Oswald Spengler challenged the idea of Eurocentrism.
★Oswald Spengler wrote the book The Decline of the West in two volumes.
★The first volume was published in 1918 and the second in 1922.
★In this book he opposed the Eurocentric view of history.
★So the one who challenged Eurocentrism was Oswald Spengler.
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