Benedict Beckeld

Benedict Beckeld is a philosopher and writer. His latest book is Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations (2022), published by Cornell University Press.

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The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt

The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror.

Benedict Beckeld

13 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

Herbert Marcuse and the Left’s Endless Campaign Against Western ‘Repression’

The Frankfurt School of social theory began about a century ago, in the Weimar Republic. It consisted in the main of a group of rather anti-capitalist, Marxist-light gentlemen who embraced oikophobia (the hatred or dislike of one’s own cultural home), and who were understandably disillusioned by the carnage of

Benedict Beckeld

2 Mar 2022 · 8 min read

PODCAST 65: Benedict Beckeld on Oikophobia—Fashionable Disdain For Your Own Culture

Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West.

Quillette / Benedict Beckeld

1 Dec 2019 · 1 min read

'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred

The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

Benedict Beckeld

7 Oct 2019 · 8 min read