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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.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587316531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Philosopher on Dover Beach written by Roger Scruton and published by St. Augustine's Press. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a great pity that we in the United States do not have our own Roger Scruton. As his . . . collection of essays reminds us, he is an accomplished philosopher who writes trenchantly about many important political, social and religious issues, who cares passionately about art and culture and who is also a brilliant conservative polemicist. . . . "Mr. Scruton has two great virtues as a critic. One is his ability to combine a delicate appreciation of culture with the robust analytical skills of a trained philosopher. . . . "Mr. Scruton's other great virtue is his habit of assessing things from the inside, taking them on their own terms. If his judgments are often harsh, one nevertheless comes away feeling that he has made the best case possible for his subject. This makes his criticism more devastating yet also more generous than the criticism of most other commentator." - Roger Kimball, New York Times Book Review "Each essay has been constructed with considerable care, and the positions taken are clearly stated and soundly argued. . . . He shows . . . that the philosopher-critic is alive and well. . . . Recommended for all academic libraries." - Library Journal " Scruton] writes eloquently of the way in which social bonds, if refashioned in contractual form. 'become profane, a system of fa ade, a Disneyland version of what was formerly dignified and monumental.'" - Peter Clarke, London Review of Books
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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 : 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 Bacon
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature written by Roger Bacon and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780416808001
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Art and Imagination written by Roger Scruton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : 1448210518
Total Pages : 818 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 818 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448211204
Total Pages : 263 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 263 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 : Alan Ryan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333727188
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill written by Alan Ryan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mill is usually thought of as an eclectic and unsystematic writer, whose views on freedom contradict his views on moral right and wrong, whose views on causation contradict his views on syllogistic inference and so on. Alan Ryan, however, demonstrates that Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful in offering a coherent and connected defence of this system. Mill aimed to show that we could possess a knowledge of individual and social human nature equal to our knowledge of the material world; the point of showing this was to erect on the science of human nature a utilitarian ethics in which freedom and self-realisation for as many people as possible could be achieved. Written at a time when John Stuart Mill was beginning to be taken seriously as a philosopher who provided more than a storehouse of errors for student philosophers to cut their teeth on, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill was unusual in insisting on the systematic character of Mill's philosophy. From the philosophy of mathematics to the defence of individual liberty, Mill attacked the prevailing 'intuitive' theories and put a subtle empiricism in their place. Since the first edition of this acclaimed study in 1970, many writers have contributed to a more systematic understanding of Mill's programme for philosophy, ethics and social science, and Alan Ryan's preface to the second edition briefly assesses the way Mill appeared in this later climate of opinion.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400850002
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 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 2014-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton 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. To be fully alive—and to understand what we are—is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things. Rather than an argument for the existence of God, or a defense of the truth of religion, the book is an extended reflection on why a sense of the sacred is essential to human life—and what the final loss of the sacred would mean. In short, the book addresses the most important question of modernity: what is left of our aspirations after science has delivered its verdict about what we are? Drawing on art, architecture, music, and literature, Scruton suggests that the highest forms of human experience and expression tell the story of our religious need, and of our quest for the being who might answer it, and that this search for the sacred endows the world with a soul. Evolution cannot explain our conception of the sacred; neuroscience is irrelevant to our interpersonal relationships, which provide a model for our posture toward God; and scientific understanding has nothing to say about the experience of beauty, which provides a God’s-eye perspective on reality. Ultimately, a world without the sacred would be a completely different world—one in which we humans are not truly at home. Yet despite the shrinking place for the sacred in today’s world, Scruton says, the paths to transcendence remain open.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Beaufort Books
ISBN 13 : 0825306612
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Notes from Underground written by Roger Scruton and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040485
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Logos of the Sensible World written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971. Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, the course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior. The central topics considered in the lectures include the functions of the phenomenological body; beyond realism and idealism; the structures of the lived world; spatiality, temporality, language, sexuality; and perception and knowledge. Sallis illuminates Merleau-Ponty's first two works and offers a thread to follow through developments in his later essays. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the primacy of perception and his claim that "the end of a philosophy is the account of its beginning" are woven throughout the lectures. For Sallis's part, these lectures are foundational for his extended engagement with Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible, which was published in Sallis's Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings.
Author : William MacAskill
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541618637
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book What We Owe the Future written by William MacAskill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
