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oikophobe en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobe.

Meanings

1. One who suffers from oikophobia, especially one who identifies with a global group rather than feelings of patriotism or chauvinism.
   • Derrida is a classic oikophobe in so far as he repudiates the longing for home that the Western theological, legal and literary traditions satisfy. 2009, Mark Dooley, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, →ISBN, page 83:
   • Oikophobia is the repudiation of inheritance and home and he believed it had found its niche in public institutions like the universities and the BBC that offer oikophobes (think, in this case, of Guardian readers) 'the power base from which to attack the simple loyalties of ordinary people.' 2018, Arthur Aughey, The Conservative Party and the Nation: Union, England and Europe, →ISBN:
   • The oikophobe is, in his own eyes, a defender of enlightened universalism against local chauvinism. And it is the rise of the oikophobe that has led to the growing crisis of legitimacy in the nation states of Europe. 2006, Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy, →ISBN, page 25:

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