Roger Scruton: 48 books

Uma obra de extrema relevância para o atual cenário político brasileiro O filósofo político inglês Roger Scruton construiu sua reputação ao empregar a sua inteligência na reflexão e divulgação do pensamento conservador. É um pensador que sabe conjugar de forma exemplar um raciocínio...

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. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music,...

“…one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read…the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas…” —Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal A brief magisterial introduction to...

What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics,...

Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, society and culture. The tone of this book is positive and the arguments are recommendations with the aim of convincing the reader that rumours of the death of Western civilisation are greatly exaggerated....

As the lights that have guided us go out, people begin to wander in the twilight, seeking their place of belonging. In these stories, set in recent times, but before the blinding glare of social media, Roger Scruton describes the remembered landscapes of people who are not where they belong, and not...

« En France, qu’il vienne d’ici ou d’ailleurs, le conservatisme a mauvaise presse : quand pour certains tout commence à la Révolution française, que la liberté ne se conçoit que comme table rase et que le Progrès et le progressisme jouent le rôle de religion moderne, on comprend qu’être...

Essere conservatore condensa e aggiorna le rifles¬sioni che il filosofo Roger Scruton va svolgendo dai primi anni 1970 sulle origini, gli sviluppi e i vari aspetti di quel pensiero conservatore anglosassone che trova in Edmund Burke alla fine del secolo XVIII uno dei «padri fondatori». Alla luce...

Il libro di Roger Scruton è una raccolta di saggi ‒ otto ‒, pubblicata in Inghilterra nel 2016. I temi spaziano dall’estetica artistica, agli animali, alla politica, al ballo, al futuro della tecnologia, alla conservazione dell’ambiente naturale, alla difesa della civiltà occidentale, alla...

Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies’ profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations,...

The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its...

Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what...

What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society.  In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms,...

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the...