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Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847060136
An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015054147171
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0312050399
Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441170293
The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts (2007). The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays. It is made up of five sections - the last section of all contains some of Scruton's most pugilistic pieces on Dawkins and on The Iraq War. Scruton holds Burkean political views and his book The Meaning of Conservatism was a response to the growth of liberalism in the Conservative party. At all times he is concerned to shift the right way from economics towards moral issues such as sex education and censorship laws. But he has in fact written on almost every aspect of philosophy - always in prose which is accessible and written with pellucid clarity.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472927859
Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority in the field, his defence of political conservatism has marked him out in academic circles as public enemy number one. Whether it is Scruton's opinions that get up the nose of his critics, or the wit and erudition with which he expresses them, there is no doubt that their noses are vastly distended by his presence, and constantly on the verge of a collective sneeze. Contrary to orthodox opinion, however, Roger Scruton is a human being, and Gentle Regrets contains the proof of it - a quiet, witty but also serious and moving account of the ways in which life brought him to think what he thinks, and to be what he is. His moving vignettes of his childhood and later influences illuminate this book. Love him or hate him, he will engage you in an argument that is both intellectually stimulating and informed by humour.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472927842
A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS "He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK) When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid, serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Vintage Publications
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000092833650
Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, and this book is considered by many to be the best philosophical primer since Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134792092
A Short History of Modern Philosophy is a lucid, challenging and up-to-date survey of the philosophers and philosophies from the founding father of modern philosophy, René Descartes, to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Roger Scruton has been widely praised for his success in making the history of modern philosophy cogent and intelligible to anyone wishing to understand this fascinating subject. In this new edition, he has responded to the explosion of interest in the history of philosophy by substantially rewriting the book, taking account of recent debates and scholarship.
Author : Mark Dooley,Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472917102
This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe. Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on a Wiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780825306617
Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan Reichl, condemned to a menial life by his father's alleged crime, and of Betka, the girl who offers him education, opportunity and love, but who mysteriously refuses to commit herself.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 041680800X
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691169286
"In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone."--Jacket.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448211203
Set in the early 1960s, Francesca tells the story of Colin Ferguson, an aspiring writer whose life is blighted by love. The object of his love lies always out of reach, and never more so than when he holds her in his arms. Through Francesca he is offered a vision of modern England that frightens and enthrals him: whether escaping from hers or returning, he always sees something new and unsurprising in this haunted universe. And, as the tragic story unfolds, the reader enters into a world of guilt and hesitation which, for all its strangeness, has an air of uncanny truth. The kaleidoscope of characters – Colin's father, the embittered schoolmaster, Sarah, the lesbian poetess, Harold Plumptre, the prostitute and healer – constantly shifts and reassembles, drawing the ring of fate ever tighter until the novel reaches its surprising but inevitable climax. An atmospheric work, with passages of great descriptive power, Francesca is as a remarkable novel. Its intriguing characters and breathtaking pace grip the reader from the beginning, and its narrative expresses not only the drama of the characters, but also an urgent and compelling vision of the society from which they spring, and of the destiny of any man in the condition of modernity.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781408194690
Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts. This good-humoured book offers an antidote to the pretentious clap-trap that is written about wine today and a profound apology for the drink on which civilisation has been founded. In vino veritas.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781474270182
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth, Janácek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.