Author: Mark Dooley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847060137
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach
Author: Mark Dooley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847060137
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847060137
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.
Philosopher on Dover Beach
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
ISBN: 9781587316531
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
ISBN: 9781587316531
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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
The Roger Scruton Reader
Author:
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441170294
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441170294
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
The Roger Scruton Reader
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826420494
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years. >
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826420494
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years. >
I Drink Therefore I Am
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408194694
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408194694
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Art and Imagination
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780416808001
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780416808001
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Gentle Regrets
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472927850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472927850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Understanding Music
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847065066
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Essays over het snijvlak tussen compositieleer, analyse, betekenisgeving en de relatie tussen taal en muziek.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847065066
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Essays over het snijvlak tussen compositieleer, analyse, betekenisgeving en de relatie tussen taal en muziek.
Philosopher on Dover Beach
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Modern Philosophy
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448210518
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448210518
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
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.