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Conversations with Roger Scruton
Description
A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley.
This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe.
Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on a Wiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.
Table of Contents
1 Childhood and Cambridge
2 Becoming a Philosopher
3 Becoming a Conservative at Birkbeck
4 Some Thoughts on British Philosophy
5 Eastern Europe
6 Why Architecture?
7 Why Sex?
8 Leaving Birkbeck for Boston
9 Farming and Family
10 Sinful Pleasures
11 Rediscovering Religion
12 Living as a Writer
13 Making Music
14 Acceptance
Afterword
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | May 19 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781472917119 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Illustrations | No illustrations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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