Utvidet returrett til 31. januar 2025

Bøker av Benedict Beckeld

Filter
Filter
Sorter etterSorter Populære
  • av Benedict Beckeld
    345,-

    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 "e;the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'"e; in its political and philosophical applications. Beckeld analyzes the theories behind oikophobia along with their historical sources, revealing why oikophobia is best described as a cultural malaise that befalls civilizations during their declining days. Beckeld gives a framework for why today's society is so fragmented and self-critical. He demonstrates that oikophobia is the antithesis of xenophobia. By this definition, the riots and civil unrest in the summer of 2020 were an expression of oikophobia. Excessive political correctness that attacks tradition and history is an expression of oikophobia. Beckeld argues that if we are to understand these behaviors and attitudes, we must understand oikophobia as a sociohistorical phenomenon.Western Self-Contempt is a systematic analysis of oikophobia, combining political philosophy and history to examine how Western civilizations and cultures evolve from naive and self-promoting beginnings to states of self-loathing and decline. Concluding with a philosophical portrait of an increasingly interconnected Western civilization, Beckeld reveals how past events and ideologies, both in the US and in Europe, have led to a modern culture of self-questioning and self-rejection.

  • - Ueberlegungen zur stoischen Seelen- und Schicksalslehre
    av Benedict Beckeld
    526,-

    Diese Arbeit behandelt die stoischen Lehren der materialistischen Psychologie und des Determinismus, insbesondere von Chrysipp. Die stoische Antwort auf diese Fragen lasst sich aus philologischen Vergleichen ihrer uberlieferten Textfragmente rekonstruieren. Eine wichtige Quelle ist dabei die Kritik an der Stoa durch Alexander von Aphrodisias.

Gjør som tusenvis av andre bokelskere

Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.