Yu. N. Davydov - a well-known connoisseur of the latest Western European philosophical and literary movements - in this new book explores the philosophical origins of literary avant-garde. The philosophy of Nietzsche, Freud, Spengler, which marks the crisis of bourgeois humanism, the speculation of Sartre, Markway, Adorno and other fashionable philosophers of our time, is considered by the author in their logical development to neo-avant-garde nihilism - a complete denial of culture, passed off as a kind of revolution of flesh and spirit.