Conversando com Roger Scruton

by Roger Scruton, Mark Dooley

Este livro revela como foi a vida de Roger Scruton crescendo em High Wycombe, como ele sobreviveu a Cambridge e como manteve sua visão conservadora. Conta a ascensão de Scruton à proeminência enquanto escrevia para o The Times e lança luz sobre a sua campanha em nome dos dissidentes clandestinos no Leste europeu.

Abrangendo tópicos tão diversos quanto o estado atual da filosofia, música e religião britânicas, e esclarecendo o que está por trás do abandono da academia por Scruton para sua nova vida em uma fazenda em Wiltshire, Conversando com Roger Scruton é um retrato íntimo de um escritor que sentiu a filosofia como uma vocação e cuja defesa de causas fora de moda trouxe-lhe um grande número de leitores na Grã-Bretanha e em todo o mundo.

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2024

About the author

Sir Roger Scruton was a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics and politics. He was a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He taught in both England and America and was a Visiting Professor at Department of Philosophy and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, he was also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C.

In 2015 he published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. Fools Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. It includes new chapters covering Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou and some timely thoughts about the historians and social thinkers who led British intellectuals up the garden path during the last decades, including Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband.

In 2016 he again published two books, Confessions of A Heretic (a collection of essays) and The Ring of Truth, about Wagner’s Ring cycle, which was widely and favourably reviewed. In 2017 he published On Human Nature (Princeton University Press), which was again widely reviewed, and contains a distillation of his philosophy. He also published a response to Brexit, Where We Are (Bloomsbury).