The Roger Scruton Reader

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A&C Black, Jan 6, 2010 - Philosophy - 256 pages

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 The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays.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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

A Philosophy of Love Section 1 Conservatism
How I Became a Conservative from Gentle Regrets 2005
WhatisRight? from Thinkersofthe New Left I986 3 Rousseau and the Origins of Liberalism from The New Criterion I998
The Nation
The Social Contract from TheWest andthe Rest 2003
Sex and the Sacred
The Philosophy of Love from DeathDevoted Heart 2004
Meaningful Marriage from A Political Philosophy 2006
TheReturnof Religion from Axess Magazine 2008
Culture
The Aesthetic Gaze from Modern Culture 2000
Knowledge and Feeling from Culture Counts 2007
Classicism NowPreviously Unpublished
Principles and Problems2005 Section 5 Homecomings 14 Conserving Nature from APolitical Philosophy 2006
Thoughts on Hunting from Animal Rights and Wrongs 2000
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About the author (2010)

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.

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TitleThe Roger Scruton Reader
Compiled byMark Dooley
PublisherA&C Black, 2010
ISBN1441170294, 9781441170293
Length256 pages
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