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What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumors of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm that sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of "dead white European males." Ranging widely over...

Der unlängst verstorbene Roger Scruton war einer der wohl wichtigsten konservativen Denker unserer Zeit. Er liefert in diesem Buch eine vernichtende Kritik der Idole des linken Denkens des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Hier enthüllt er, wie es dazu kommen konnte, dass heute Linke die Geisteswissenschaften dominieren. In diesem provokanten, fesselnden und höchst unterhaltsamen Buch erklärt er, warum leere Rhetorik und himmelschreiender Nonsens es g...

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The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume edited by Mark DooleyThe philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of the post-war years in the English speaking world. He was also a journalist, critic and commentator whose public pronouncements were prophetic, coruscating and provocative.In this book are assembled the very best of Scruton's ...

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. Critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, but have often viewed the drama as a "mere trifle, " about Wagner's own forbidden affair with Matilde Wesendonk, the wife of a banker who supported hi...

A revised edition of the Notting Hill Editions essay collection by the late Sir Roger Scruton with a new introduction by Douglas Murray.

A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but although Parsifal is the culmination of Wagner's life-long obsession with the ...

...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 JournalA brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain's leading intellectuals.In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political ph...

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. Covering all aspects of the English inheritance, and informed by a unique philosophical vision, England: An Elegy shows that there is such a country as England, that it has a distinct personality and endows its residents with a distinct moral ideal.

Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der es als Makel angesehen wird, konservativ zu sein. Bestenfalls wird der Konservatismus als eine angestaubte Nostalgie belächelt. Die Bannerträger des Zeitgeistes verstehen unter Freiheit die Zerstörung aller in der Geschichte gewachsenen Gemeinschaften, aller kulturellen und institutionellen Bindungen. Konservative jedoch halten dagegen. Sie glauben daran, dass es viel Gutes in unseren Gesellschaften gibt und das...

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