Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations - Hardcover
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Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self-hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and...
Benedict Beckeld holds a PhD in Philosophy and Classical Philology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is the author of Die Notwendigkeit der Notwendigkeit, Art and Aesthetics, and Statements. Follow him on X @BenedictBeckeld.
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