Continuum (2006)
Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration.
Books
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Continuum (2006)
What principles should govern our relations to the nation-state, to the environment, to other species, to other cultures and to other ways of life?
OUP (2004)
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms.
Continuum (2004)
For a number of years Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the Financial Times on country matters.
OUP (2002)
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world.
Continuum (2001)
In this poignant and personal tribute Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues.
St. Augustine's Press (2000)
This, the sequel to the same author's much-acclaimed Xanthippic Dialogues, is a multi-faceted commentary on the post-modern condition, which takes the form of a part-Hellenistic, part-Arabian fairy tale.
Routledge (1999)
Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: "The Great Philosophers."
OUP (1999)
What is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this stimulating volume, Roger Scruton offers a comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy.
Yellow Jersey Press (1998)
Modern people are as given to loving, fearing, fleeing, and pursuing other species as were their hunter-gatherer forebears.
St. Augustine’s Press (1998. new ed. 2000)
Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn.
Penguin Books (1996)
"Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it.
Continuum (1996, 1998, 3rd ed 2000)
A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand.
Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties?
Carcanet Press (1995)
Roger Scruton is never less than forthright, and in his lucid and challenging essays on architecture he anatomises the spatial imagination of the age by analysis and comparison.
Penguin Books, (1994)
Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate.
OUP (1993, new ed. 2001)
Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult.
St. Augustine's Press (1989)
In this collection of previously published essays, Scruton casts his philosophically conservative mind over a variety of subjects from Hegel to politics, from literature to art, and from aesthetics to the deficiencies of analytic philosophy.
The Claridge Press, London (1987)
In this book, published in 1987 during the course of Lebanon's civil wars, Roger Scruton explains and defends the old settlement of Lebanon, and the emergence in modern times of the only Arab country in which politicians gained and relinquished office without the aid of bullets.
Continuum (1986, 2006)
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want?
St. Augustine's Press (1983, new ed. 1997)
Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is tested and developed through its application to particular examples.
Routledge (1982, 1995, 3rd ed, 2001)
In this classic introductory work, Scruton takes us on us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
St. Augustine's Press (1981)
Brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources, arranging them thematically.
Carcanet Press (1981)
St. Augustine's Press
PUP (1980)
Scruton takes his readers on a journey through aesthetic theory and tries in every sense to apply them directly to architecture.