Gentle Regrets: Thoughts From A Life - Couverture rigide

Scruton, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826471315 ISBN 13 : 9780826471314

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2006

Synopsis

Book by Scruton Roger

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, his defence of political conservatism has marked him out in academic circles as public enemy number one. Whether it is Scruton's opinions that get up the nose of his critics, or the wit and erudition with which he expresses them, there is no doubt that their noses are vastly distended by his presence, and constantly on the verge of a collective sneeze. Contrary to orthodox opinion, however, Roger Scruton is a human being, and Gentle Regrets contains the proof of it - a quiet, witty but also serious and moving account of the ways in which life brought him to think what he thinks, and to be what he is. His moving vignettes of his childhood and later influences illuminate this book. Love him or hate him, he will engage you in an argument that is both intellectually stimulating and informed by humour.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Roger Scruton has been professor of Aesthetics at Birbeck College, London and University Professor at Boston University. His other books for Continuum include The West and the Rest and News From Somewhere.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826471315
• ISBN 13: 9780826471314
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256