За рецепцията на «евразийството» и Шпенглер в България: маймунство, европеизъм и човешина
On the Reception of Eurasianism and Spengler in Bulgaria: Emulation, Europeanism and Humanity

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on early Bulgarian reception of Eurasianism – of its ‘proto-manifesto’, Nikolay Trubetskoy’s Europe and the Humankind, and of its first collective manifesto – the collection Exodus to the East. It displays fluctuations coming from the ambiguousness of the recipients’ cultural condition, as well as from the ambivalence of the works’ thematic dominant (and especially of Trubetskoy’s). Recipients were tempted, on one hand, to speculate on the ways of gaining cultural autonomy for the national community (regarding the ‘metropoly’, Europe); but, on the other, they were prone to conformism in their personal positioning in the cultural realm which prevented them from realizing the phenomenon of ‘euro-centrism’ and confronting it. As for the works under reception, Europe and the Humankind implied both geopolitical and ethical approach (the second one being in general underexploited by the contemporaries). In fact, the article offers a preliminary and implicit exploration of Trubetskoy’s position potential to solve issues of multiculturalism which, probably avoids facing current theory.

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