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Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 : 9780856358579
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher on Dover Beach written by Roger Scruton and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441159274
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach written by Mark Dooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason was that he was an unapologetic conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke. That conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968. From that point on Scruton set himself the task of stridently opposing what he termed 'the culture of repudiation'. In so doing he targeted liberals in the tradition of Russell and Mill, existentialists like Sartre and post modernists in the fashion of Foucault. Here is a brilliant description of Scruton's life and work and a careful analysis of his central ideas. Scruton defended an Hegelian and Burkean view of human nature, one founded on allegiance to the State as the guarantor of tangible freedom. He thus opposed any and all variations of the social contract theory, liberal or existential individualism or philosophical theories of the 'authentic' self in isolation from its kind. His conservative notion of the nation state was used to reflect upon and criticise the European Union, the United Nations and the idea that the Middle East can be reformed along Western democratic lines. Scruton, argues Mark Dooley, was the one British intellectual who courageously rowed against the tide of liberal conviction and arrived at political conclusions the truth of which are becoming more and more obvious. This book argues conclusively that Roger Scruton was a prophet for our times.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Philosopher on Dover Beach written by Roger Scruton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847060137
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach written by Mark Dooley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.
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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441170294
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Roger Scruton Reader written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826420494
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Roger Scruton Reader written by Roger Scruton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years. >
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408194694
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book I Drink Therefore I Am written by Roger Scruton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065066
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Understanding Music written by Roger Scruton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays over het snijvlak tussen compositieleer, analyse, betekenisgeving en de relatie tussen taal en muziek.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174056
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy written by Roger Scruton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of the field but a vivid, energetic, and personal account to guide the reader making his or her own venture into philosophy. Addressing a range of subjects from freedom, God, reality, and morality, to sex, music, and history, Scruton argues philosophy's relevance not just to intellectual questions, but to contemporary life.
Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472917111
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Roger Scruton written by Mark Dooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448211204
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Francesca written by Roger Scruton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169284
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Soul of the World written by Roger Scruton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472927850
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Gentle Regrets written by Roger Scruton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448210518
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Modern Philosophy written by Roger Scruton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to simulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of the field, from the philosophy of logic to aesthetics, and in so doing provides us with an essential and comprehensive guide to modern thinking.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199229759
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction written by Roger Scruton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782395040
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Our Church written by Roger Scruton and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.
Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Exodus written by Mark Dooley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Exodus, Mark Dooley offers a lively interpretation of Kierkegaard as a precursor of the ethical and political insights of Jacques Derrida. While many connections have been forged in recent years between these two quintessentially Continental figures, Dooley's book argues that these affiliations run much deeper than any previous commentators have suggested. Indeed, his most controversial claim is that Kierkegaard is anything but a proponent of asocial individualism, but is one whose writings bear witness to the notion of an open quasi-community which has driven much of Derrida's work over the past decade. In vigorously challenging conventional wisdom surrounding the place of Kierkegaard in contemporary thought and political theory, Dooley shows how powerfully postmodern and politically charged the latter's specifically 'religious' ideas are. As such, Kierkegaard ought to be read as someone who anticipated Derrida's claim that genuine responsibility in the political sphere depends upon a phophetic call for justice on behalf of the least among us. will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion and postmodernism, as well as to those with interests in ethics and politics from a Continental perspective. It will undoubtedly change the way we read Kierkegaard in the new millennium.
