An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture - Couverture rigide

Scruton, Visiting Professor School Of Philosophical Anthropological And Film Studies Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1890318477 ISBN 13 : 9781890318475

Editeur : St. Augustine's Press, 2000

Synopsis

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, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life.

The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics.  He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia.  A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor Roger Scruton is visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall Oxford and visiting Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His other books include Sexual Desire, The West and the Rest, England: An Elegy, News from Somewhere, Gentle Regrets and I Drink Therefore I Am (all published by Continuum).'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St. Augustine's Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1890318477
• ISBN 13: 9781890318475
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible