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Roger Scruton

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Born: January 26 1944

Died: 1111 01 20202020

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Sir Roger Scruton was a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics and politics. He was a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He taught in both England and America and was a Visiting Professor at Department of Philosophy and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, he was also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C.

In 2015 he published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. Fools Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. It includes new chapters covering Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou and some timely thoughts about the historians and social thinkers who led British intellectuals up the garden path during the last decades, including Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband.

In 2016 he again published two books, Confessions of A Heretic and The Ring of Truth, about Wagner’s Ring cycle, which was widely and favourably reviewed. In 2017 he published On Human Nature , which was again widely reviewed, and contains a distillation of his philosophy. He also published a response to Brexit, Where We Are .

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Roger Scruton

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Books from Roger Scruton

Kant: A Very Short Introduction

How to Be a Conservative

Beauty

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

A Short History of Modern Philosophy

Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

The Soul of the World

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria

Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung

Confessions of a Heretic

A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism

Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

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