Mazeppism is an Existentialism...

and Existentialism, as Sartre taught us, is a humanism. As a "Romantic Orientalism" purged of imperialistic tendencies by the refining fire of historical reflection, Mazeppism is post-Romantic. But every post-Romanticism remains Romantic in the same way that every post-Enlightenment is a child of the Enlightenment: Romanticism is post-Romanticism's sine qua non. And Romanticism is a post-Enlightenment mode.

In sum: Mazeppism is an Existentialism, which is a humanism. It is an Orientalist mode of Romantic humanism but post-Romantic and post-Enlightenment.

Let us be candid: we stand on the shoulders of giants with clay-feet, but giants nonetheless.