Śmiertelna cywilizacja. Katastroficzny antyokcydentalizm rosyjski i europejskie paradoksy
The Mortal Civilization. The Russian Antioccidental Catastrophism and European Paradoxes

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to show the paradoxical nature of the idea of the fall of Western civilization and its Russian reception. Two fundamental problems are considered: why so many European thinkers and artists constantly ponder the death of the West and why their ideas took such a strong hold over among Russian philosophers of history. I attempt to formulate a hypothesis of “civilization resentment”, which I interpret as a fragment of theory of modernization. I consider and connect three conceptions: (i) Isaiah Berlin’s idea of “pursuit of the acclaim” as the source of nationalism; (ii) Jan Kucharzewski’s interpretation of Russian revolutionary thought; (iii) Fedor Stepun’s vision of the relations between German romanticism and Russian slavophilism.

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