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Zusatztext 'This is a book brimming with observations and arguments, some surprising, many provocative, all engaging.'- Chandran Kukathas, The American Conservative Informationen zum Autor Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, author and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology. He has been a columnist for both the Sunday Independent and the Irish Daily Mail , and is currently a Contributing Editor to The European Conservative magazine. His many books include The Roger Scruton Reader , Why Be a Catholic? , Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming , and Conversations with Roger Scruton , all published by Bloomsbury. In 2022, he edited and published Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism . He is Sir Roger Scruton's literary executor. Klappentext 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 The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays.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. Vorwort This is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive collection of Roger Scruton's writings. It gathers selections from some of Scruton's earliest works, such as "The Aesthetics of Architecture" (1979), to his recent "Culture Counts" (2007). It provides an insightful introduction to Scruton's philosophical foundations that include his Burkean political views. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction \ 1. Autobiographical \ 2. Art and Culture \ 3. Philosophy and Some Philosophers \ 4. Politics \ 5. The Philosopher in Society...
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Introduction 1. Autobiographical 2. Art and Culture 3. Philosophy and Some Philosophers 4. Politics 5. The Philosopher in Society
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'An excellent introduction to [Scruton's] range of interests' - Kenneth Minogue, Times Literary Supplement
