Luis Sáez Rueda in this book undertakes the ambitious task of showing the foundations of the crisis in the West, connecting its deeper social and political causes dynamics embedded in the spiritual ground of culture.

The central thesis of the author claims the decline of the creative powers underlying the interpretation of the world and modus operandi that make the mode of being of our civilization. In unison, realizes a new cultural malaise, a choking feeling in the collective unconscious that expands clandestinely. Based on this analysis, Sáez argues that the decline of the West is its agenesis (the impotence of its sociocultural substrate to create itself) and accompanying folly (as loss of self-estrangement). Such wilderness state of sociocultural world results in a pathogen-the autophagy civilizational a complex phenomenon that propels an evolution of civilization against its own autocreadoras powers. The crisis of today is this paradoxical involucionista progress, emanating civilizational diseases that take shape in concrete social and political processes. You have to cross from inside the 'Finish sundown tonight holding the author to come true aurora lights now looming and that the author figure on three fundamental: the pro-Baroque twinkle, flash and tragic spirit principles of ethics of lucidity.