Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, this book provides a survey of modern philosophy. The author takes us on a tour of the subject...more details Format:Paperback Pages:328
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781890318475
Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:186
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780140275162
"Philosophy -- the 'love of wisdom' -- can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done", so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781900512817
Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties? These and a myriad of other issues are discussed in the brilliantly argued Animal Rights and Wrongs...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:206
Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties?
These and a myriad of other issues are discussed in the brilliantly argued Animal Rights and Wrongs...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:206
This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:264
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781458763532
Boldly standing up to today's nihilisms and debasements of taste. Culture Counts offers a noble and compelling defense of high culture and the centrality of rich aesthetic experience for a full human life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826480750
At a time when Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalisms are flourishing and English nationalism disapproved, when the customs and the institutions of the English are being dismantled...more details Format:Paperback Pages:270
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826471314
As he recounts in this book, Scruton became increasingly disenchanted with the academic world but came to enjoy a growing reputation as a perceptive and pungent critic of modern society and its moral values - especially as advocated by the so-called politically correct....more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826480330
Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority in the field...more details Format:Paperback Pages:248
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781848870765
Roger Scruton is one of Britain's most respected thinkers and in this new book he offers a radically different solution to the planet's most important problem....more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780199895571
Release Date: 01 June 2012 The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principal threats to the planet...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:464
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781402779015
Immanuel Kant is one of the most influential-and most complex-modern philosophers. His ideas on the subjective nature of reality challenged contemporary beliefs about God...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:163
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781594033834
An essential volume of essays commissioned by The American Spectator and edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization examines the intellectual and spiritual traditions of our belief in individual liberty...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:171
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826494443
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:173
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826485441
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....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781844131068
Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to stimulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of the field...more details Format:Paperback Pages:624
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826469304
For a number of years Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the Financial Times on country matters. Always beautifully written, one of these pieces ("Vegetables") won the 2002 prize from The Queen's English Society for the best piece of prose writing of the year...more details
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826476289
For a number of years Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the Financial Times on country matters. Always beautifully written, one of these pieces ("Vegetables") won the 2002 prize from The Queen's English Society for the best piece of prose writing of the year...more details Format:Paperback Pages:177
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781890318598
This, the sequel to the same author's much-acclaimed Xanthippic Dialogues, is a multi-faceted commentary on the post-modern condition, which takes the form of a part-Hellenistic...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:266
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826476234
This is a personal view of philosophy from a renowned critic and thinker. In it, Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments that attracted him to the subject and which have engaged his attention. He attempts to show how philosophy is relevant not just to intellectual questions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826494450
This is a personal view of philosophy from a renowned critic and thinker. In it, Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments which have attracted him to the subject and which have engaged his attention. He attempts to show how philosophy is relevant not just to intellectual questions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, human society and culture. In this book he writes a defence of social order...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:214
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781847065247
Atheist culture involves a turning away from God. Scruton shows how self-destructive this is for us and our culture....more details Format:Hardback Pages:200
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781842125144
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love - and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premisses...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780753802137
Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is tested and developed through its application to particular examples. Each essay approaches...more details Format:Paperback Pages:294
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781890318611
Brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources, arranging them thematically. The book has four sections: Language and Art, Writers in Context...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:245
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781848872011
In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826485694
In this astonishing book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:196
Noted English philosopher and cultural commentator Roger Scruton argues that to comprehend Islamist terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization....more details Format:Paperback Pages:187
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781882926817
Since last September's terrorist attacks on the United States, a number of explanatory theses have been advanced. But few if any have matched the analytical depth and originality displayed by the noted English philosopher and cultural commentator Roger Scruton in The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat. In this important monograph...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:200
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781847065063
Following his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music, Scruton explores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music.>...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:244
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826470300
In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization.
With extraordinary perception...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9781890318949
In Plato's dialogues, an idealized Socrates expounds the ideas for which Plato will, until the end of history, be famous. The world of Forms; the ideal Republic with its totalitarian masterplan; the tribute to Eros...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:283
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Scruton Roger Prof
ISBN:9781403989529
Roger Scruton's "Dictionary of Political Thought" has been widely acclaimed as a profound and incisive guide to political ideas. This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary political changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:744
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Scruton Roger Prof
ISBN:9781403989512
Roger Scruton's "Dictionary of Political Thought" has been widely acclaimed as a profound and incisive guide to political ideas. This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary political changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982...more details Format:Hardback Pages:744
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Russell Kirk;Russell Scruton RogerKirk
ISBN:9781882926176
There is no better guide to this great British statesman than Russell Kirk. This book is both an accessible overview of an important thinker and an unsurpassed introduction to his thought....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:285
Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy....more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Scruton Roger
ISBN:9781848872004
Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272