Filsuf sané  wénten saking pangawit abad kaping kalih, inggih punika Oswald Spengler, Spengler, Oswald, Decline of The West: Perspectives of World History (1919) ngawigunayang kruna sané  mawit saking Jerman, inggih punika ‘Kultur’, "budaya" antuk napi sane kabaos akeh jadma pinaka "peradaban".