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A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West
A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West Published by The Claridge Press, London (1987) ISBN 1-870626-00-1 Format: Paperback Description In this book, published in 1987 during the course of...
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Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction OUP (2002)144 pages, 978-0-19-280316-0 Description Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval...
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Fortnight's Anger
Fortnight's Anger Carcanet Press (1981)ISBN-10: 0 856353 76 0 ISBN-13: 978 0 856353 76 5Edition:1st Format: Hardback Description TBC Buy from Amazon
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Gentle Regrets
Gentle Regrets Continuum (2006)ISBN: 9780826480330 256 Pages, paperback Description Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English...
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I Drink Therefore I am
I Drink Therefore I am Continuum (2009)ISBN-10: 1441170677, ISBN-13: 978-1441170675 Description The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem, which was to wrap the drink in religious rituals, to...
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
Kant: A Very Short Introduction OUP (1993, new ed. 2001)160 pages |978-0-19-280199-9 | Paperback Description Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most...
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The Meaning of Conservatism
The Meaning of Conservatism St. Augustine's Press (1980, 1984, 3rd ed. 2000)220 pages, ISBN: 978-1-890318-40-6 Description This is a major contribution to political thought from conservatism's greatest...
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Modern Philosophy: An introduction and survey
Modern Philosophy An introduction and survey Penguin Books, (1994)Paperback | 624 pages | ISBN 9780140249071 Description Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from...
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On Hunting
On Hunting Yellow Jersey Press (1998)173 pages, ISBN: 978-1-58731-600-5 Description Modern people are as given to loving, fearing, fleeing, and pursuing other species as were their hunter-gatherer...
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Perictione in Colophon: Reflections on the Aesthetic Way of Life
Perictione in Colophon Reflections on the Aesthetic Way of Life St. Augustine's Press (2000)263 pages, ISBN: 978-1-890318-59-8 Description This, the sequel to the same author's much-acclaimed...
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Philosopher on Dover Beach
Philosopher on Dover Beach St. Augustine's Press (1989)350 pages, ISBN: 978-1-890318-60-4 In this collection of previously published essays, Scruton casts his philosophically conservative mind over a...
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The Aesthetic Understanding
The Aesthetic Understanding St. Augustine's Press (1983, new ed. 1997)ISBN: 978-1-890318-02-4 Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is...
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The Politics of Culture and Other Essays
The Politics of Culture and Other Essays St. Augustine's Press (1981)245 pages, ISBN-10: 1890318612, ISBN-13: 978-1890318611 Description Brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources,...
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Sexual Desire
Sexual Desire Continuum (1986, 2006)ISBN: 9780826480385, 448 Pages, paperback Description When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence,...
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A Short History of Modern Philosophy
A Short History of Modern Philosophy Routledge (1982, 1995, 3rd ed, 2001)Isbn10: 0415130352 Description In this classic introductory work, Scruton takes us on us on a fascinating tour of the subject,...
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Spinoza: The Great Philosophers
Spinoza The Great Philosophers Routledge (1999)SBN-13: 9780415923903ISBN: 0415923905 Description Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can...
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Aesthetics of Music
Aesthetics of Music OUP (1999)ISBN13: 9780198167273 ISBN10: 019816727X Paperback, 552 pages Description: What is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this stimulating volume, Roger...
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The Aesthetics of Architecture
The Aesthetics of Architecture PUP (1980)ISBN13: 978-0-691-00322-1 Scruton takes his readers on a journey through aesthetic theory and tries in every sense to apply them directly to architecture. By...
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An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture St. Augustine’s Press (1998. new ed. 2000)ISBN: 978-1-890318-47-5, 186 pages Description Received by the British press with equal acclaim and...
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy Penguin Books (1996)ISBN-10: 0140275169, ISBN-13: 978-0140275162. Paperback: 176 pages Description "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in...
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Animal Rights and Wrongs
Animal Rights and Wrongs Continuum (1996, 1998, 3rd ed 2000)ISBN: 9780826494047 Description A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. Do animals have rights? If not, do we have...
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The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism
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Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Death-Devoted Heart Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde OUP (2004)246 pages, 978-0-19-516691-0 | Hardback Description A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of...
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Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
Culture Counts Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged Encounter Books (2008)Hardcover 136 pages ISBN: 1594031940 Description What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, the...
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England: An Elegy
England: An Elegy Continuum (2001) ISBN: 9780826480750288 Pages, paperback Description In this poignant and personal tribute Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating...
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A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism
A Political Philosophy Arguments for Conservatism Continuum (2006)ISBN-10: 0826496156, ISBN-13: 978-0826496157 Description What principles should govern our relations to the nation-state, to the...
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News from Somewhere: On Settling
News from Somewhere: On Settling Continuum (2004)ISBN: 9780826476289 192 pages, paperback Description For a number of years Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the Financial Times on...
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The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought Macmillan Publishers Ltd (2007)ISBN-10: 1403989524 , ISBN-13: 978-1403989529 Description Roger Scruton's Dictionary of Political Thought has been...
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Understanding Music - Philosophy and Interpretation
Understanding Music Philosophy and Interpretation Continuum (2009)ISBN: 9781847065063 Description: Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in...
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Beauty
Beauty OUP (2009) Description Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful. This compact volume is filled with...
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The Uses of Pessimism
The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope Atlantic Books (2010) The argument of this book proposes that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the...
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Green Philosophy
Green Philosophy Atlantic Books (January 2012) The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from...
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Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives...
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Notes from Underground
Published March 2014 by Beaufort Books A novel set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped in the...
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Soul of the World
The Soul of the World is a defence of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. Our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension...
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How to be a Conservative
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...
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The Disappeared
The Disappeared is launched on 26th March 2015 by Bloomsbury Reader. It is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. The first magazine review by Julie Bindel is published in...
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Fools Frauds & Firebrands
Fools Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left was released on October 8th. For those that would like to order their copy now - please visit the Bloomsbury website About Fools, Frauds and...
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2016 International IMPAC Awards The International DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The Award is an initiative of Dublin City...
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Conversations with Roger Scruton
Conversations with Roger Scruton - Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley *Newly Published: 19th May 2016* About Conversations with Roger Scruton This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing...
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The Ring of Truth
The Ring of Truth. The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung Roger Scruton Published Thursday 9th June 2016 Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern...
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