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Oikophobia, coined by the British philosopher Roger Scruton, is here used as a non-clinical description of an 'anti-culture' prevalent among Western artists and intellectuals. It is a combination of:
oikos - from the Greek meaning a “house,” “family,” “people,” or “nation”
and
-phobia
(combining form) extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group
Scruton defines it as "the repudiation of inheritance and home," and refers to it as "a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes."
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of Judeo-Christianity by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric".
Именно, именно.
oikos - from the Greek meaning a “house,” “family,” “people,” or “nation”
and
-phobia
(combining form) extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group
Scruton defines it as "the repudiation of inheritance and home," and refers to it as "a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes."
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of Judeo-Christianity by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric".
Именно, именно.
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Навприклад: анти-ауторитариан принципы, отвращение к кололективизму и всем его проявлениям (клубам, синагогам, церковным истовым походам и выражению "пусть старшие товарищи меня поправят", итд)
Вообще, после многолетнего знакомства с якобы rebellious West Village жителем и автором 2Blowhards R.Sawhill, все имена, упоминаемые им с придыханием, вызывают у меня подозрение. Roger Scruton - one of them.