Gentle Regrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentle Regrets write by Roger Scruton. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Gentle Regrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Conversations with Roger Scruton
Conversations with Roger Scruton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with Roger Scruton write by Mark Dooley. This book was released on 2016-05-19. Conversations with Roger Scruton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach write by Mark Dooley. This book was released on 2009-05-21. Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Why Rousseau was Wrong
Why Rousseau was Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Rousseau was Wrong write by Frances Ward. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Why Rousseau was Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why secular humanism leads to guilt, political correctness and fear of giving offence -- and how the Church can help.
The Iconic Imagination
The Iconic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iconic Imagination write by Douglas Hedley. This book was released on 2016-02-25. The Iconic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, The Iconic Imagination shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal.
