The Roger Scruton reader / compiled, edited and with an introduction by Mark Dooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scruton, Roger.

Contributor:

Dooley, Mark, compiler, editor, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays.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

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: A Philosophy of Love; Section 1: Conservatism; Section 2: The Nation; Section 3: Sex and the Sacred; Section 4: Culture; Section 5: Homecomings; Suggestions for Further Reading; A Bibliography of Roger Scruton's Books 1974-2009; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 14, 2018).

ISBN:

1-282-87371-7

9786612873713

1-4411-2730-5

OCLC:

676697246