A Political Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9615-7
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Scruton’s positive arguments aim to convince the reader that rumours of the death of Western civilisation are greatly exaggerated. In this paperback edition of his popular book he writes a defence of Western social order, religious, political and cultural inheritance.

Scruton remains the foremost proponent of conservative values in Britain today.
- His books are always given wide coverage and review space because of the beauty of his writing style and the intelligence of his arguments.
- Serialisation for his books in national newspapers is now not expected. It is assumed.
- Scruton himself continues to write regularly for the national press- including a wine column for the New Statesman.

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? How should we approach marriage, religion, evil and mortality? How should we respond to relativism and nihilism in their current forms? What explains the rise of totalitarianism, and the fatal attraction that it exerts over the educated mind? What is Enlightenment, and what residue has it left in our view of ourselves?

Those are some of the questions addressed by Roger Scruton in this scintillating book of philosophical reflections. Well known as a commentator, Roger Scruton makes no concessions to intellectual fashion, and is forthright in expressing what he believes and why he believes it. The result is challenging, but informed throughout by a humane and compassionate outlook. Scruton’s targets are shown to deserve his sceptical assault on them, and the vision that he defends, of a society ordered by custom, tradition and national loyalty, is one that will appeal far more widely than to orthodox conservatives.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Lecturers, General, Libraries, Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scruton, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Conserving Nations
Conserving Nature
Eating our Friends
Dying Quietly
Meaningful Marriage
Extinguishing the Light
Religion and Enlightenment
The Totalitarian Temptation
Newspeak and Eurospeak
The Nature of Evil
Eliot and Conservatism

Acknowledgements
Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Scruton is a philosopher and writer. Formerly Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and Visiting Professor at Boston College, USA. He now lives as a freelance writer in Wiltshire. He has published The West and the Rest and News from Somewhere with Continuum.