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Western self-contempt : oikophobia in the decline of civilizations
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ISBN: 1501763199 1501763202 Year: 2022 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University,

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"A study of how and why oikophobia -- cultural self-hatred -- develops in Western societies"--

Comedy, American style
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ISBN: 128224177X 9786613812896 0813548322 9780813548326 9780813546315 0813546311 9780813546322 081354632X 9781282241770 6613812897 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Several of today's bestselling novelists echo subject matter first visited in Fauset's commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid, and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and black identity. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this literary classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included, among them "Yarrow Revisited" and "Oriflamme," which help highlight the full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide contextual background to the novel.


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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations.
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ISBN: 9781501763205 9781501763182 1501763202 Year: 2022 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and 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 institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'" in its political and philosophical application. 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 socio-historical phenomenon. Western Self-Contempt is a systematic analysis of oikophobia, combining political philosophy and history to examine how Western civilizations and cultures evolve from naïve and self-promoting beginnings to a state of self-loathing and decline. Concluding with a philosophical portrait of an increasingly interconnected Western civilization, Beckeld reveals how past events and philosophies, both in the US and in Europe, have led to a modern culture of self-questioning and self-rejection.


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The tyranny of guilt : an essay on Western masochism
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ISBN: 1282531484 9786612531484 1400834317 9781400834310 0691143765 9780691143767 0691154309 9781282531482 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading writers and public intellectuals, argues that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities. The West has no monopoly on evil, and has destroyed monsters as well as created them--leading in the abolition of slavery, renouncing colonialism, building peaceful and prosperous communities, and establishing rules and institutions that are models for the world. The West should be proud--and ready to defend itself and its values. In this, Europeans should learn from Americans, who still have sufficient self-esteem to act decisively in a world of chaos and violence. Lamenting the vice of anti-Americanism that grips so many European intellectuals, Bruckner urges a renewed transatlantic alliance, and advises Americans not to let recent foreign-policy misadventures sap their own confidence. This is a searing, provocative, and psychologically penetrating account of the crude thought and bad politics that arise from excessive bad conscience.

Voice therapy : a psychotherapeutic approach to self-destructive behavior
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ISBN: 0898853524 9780898853520 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Human sciences press,


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On the origins of Jewish self-hatred
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ISBN: 1280494204 9786613589439 1400841887 9781400841882 9780691119229 0691119228 9781280494208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersy Princeton University Press

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Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred." Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their "Jewish self-hatred.? Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.

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Self-hate (Psychology) --- Antisemitism --- Self-hatred (Psychology) --- Hate --- Self-perception --- Psychological aspects. --- Adage. --- Adolf Loos. --- Afrikan Spir. --- Alfred Kerr. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-nationalism. --- Antisemitism (authors). --- Antisemitism. --- Anxiety of influence. --- Bildung. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boris Groys. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Consciousness. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Cultural pessimism. --- Defamation. --- Deportation. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Erudition. --- Erving Goffman. --- Feuilleton. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Fritz Haarmann. --- German Forest. --- German nationalism. --- Germans. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gustav Wyneken. --- Hans Gross. --- Hans Mayer. --- Hatred. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Heinrich von Kleist. --- Highbrow. --- His Family. --- Houston Stewart Chamberlain. --- Hugo Bettauer. --- Humiliation. --- Hypocrisy. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jakob Wassermann. --- Jewish assimilation. --- Jewish guilt. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Kurt Tucholsky. --- Lecture. --- Lessing. --- Ludwig Klages. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Martin Buber. --- Modern Paganism. --- Modernity. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Oedipus complex. --- On the Jewish Question. --- Oppression. --- Oswald Spengler. --- Otto Gross. --- Otto Weininger. --- Pacifism. --- Paul Heyse. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Pogrom. --- Polemic. --- Prejudice. --- Prostitution. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Ridicule. --- Rudolf Steiner. --- Satire. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-criticism. --- Self-hating Jew. --- Self-hatred. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Decline of the West. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Pity of It All. --- Theodor Fritsch. --- Theodor Lessing. --- Theodor. --- Thomas Mann. --- Thought. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Writing. --- Zionism. --- Jews --- History. --- Lessing, Theodor,


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Whiter : Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
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ISBN: 1479832472 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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Part 1. Colorism defined -- Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American -- Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident) -- Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American -- You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American -- You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American -- Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American -- Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American -- Part 2. Privilege -- Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American -- Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American -- Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American -- Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.) -- Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American -- Part 3. Aspirational whiteness -- Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American -- Mrs. santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American -- Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America -- Part 4. Anti-blackness -- Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American -- What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American -- The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American -- Part 5. Belonging and identity -- What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American -- Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American -- Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American -- Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American -- Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American -- Part 6. Skin redefined -- The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American -- Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American -- Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American -- The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American -- Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American -- Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American -- Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American.


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Whiter
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ISBN: 9781479832477 1479832472 9781479881086 1479881082 9781479800292 1479800295 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York

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Part 1. Colorism defined -- Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American -- Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident) -- Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American -- You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American -- You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American -- Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American -- Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American -- Part 2. Privilege -- Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American -- Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American -- Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American -- Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.) -- Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American -- Part 3. Aspirational whiteness -- Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American -- Mrs. santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American -- Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America -- Part 4. Anti-blackness -- Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American -- What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American -- The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American -- Part 5. Belonging and identity -- What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American -- Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American -- Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American -- Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American -- Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American -- Part 6. Skin redefined -- The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American -- Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American -- Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American -- The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American -- Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American -- Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American -- Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American.


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The event of postcolonial shame
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ISBN: 1282936476 9786612936470 1400836492 9781400836499 9781282936478 9780691141657 0691141657 9780691141664 0691141665 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.

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Postcolonialism in literature. --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Act of Violence. --- Alain Badiou. --- Alterity. --- Antithesis. --- Autobiography. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Colonialism. --- Conceptualization (information science). --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Culture and Imperialism. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Decolonization. --- Dialectic. --- Diegesis. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgrace. --- Disgust. --- Dusklands. --- Edward Said. --- Emblem. --- Essay. --- Ethics. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Franz Kafka. --- G. (novel). --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Henri Bergson. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Impossibility. --- In the Heart of the Country. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- J. M. Coetzee. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Lag. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Michel Leiris. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernity. --- Mrs. --- Nadine Gordimer. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Pathos. --- Pessimism. --- Peter Hallward. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pier Paolo Pasolini. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Postmodernism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Primo Levi. --- Principle. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Self-hatred. --- Seven Pillars of Wisdom. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Slow Man. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- T. E. Lawrence. --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Wretched of the Earth. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Vocation (poem). --- Writer. --- Writing.

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