Cultural Capitulation as Symptom/Reason/Consequence of the Decline of Europe
Turning to the work of Oswald Spengler, namely, “The Decline of Europe”, the author recalls that Spengler counted the sunset from the beginning of the nineteenth century and related its culmination to the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The article points out that the early nineteenth century was marked by the crisis and the actual failure of the largest European project - the Enlightenment, while the beginning of twenty-first century by the failure of united multicultural Europe. The difference, however, is that in the former case the position of Eurocentrism was dominant, and now, on the contrary, there is a blurring of the European cultural identity and the actual cultural surrender of Europe. This, in equal measure, is a symptom and a cause and a consequence of a very destructive process.