Meanings
- uncountableA preference for autocratic forms of leadership.
Although tyrannophilia (D. Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.
2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions2 more examples
Like many another novellist, Giraldi expresses admiration for kings and even spends most of his ninth deca indulging in a kind of tyrannophilia, making heroes of Ercole d'Este, Alfonso d'Este, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Francois I. Maria de Pacheco.
1977, Robert John Clements, Joseph Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio Chaucer to Cervantes, page 94Rather than attempt to domesticate Nietzsche's tyrannophilia, Staten instead investigates the possibility of a "communication of energy" within the economy of Nietzsche's texts between his tyrrannophilia on the one hand and the most profound and sublime elements of his teaching on the other.
2002, Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, →ISBN, page 10
Origin
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