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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never …
Kultur räknas : tro och känsla i en belägrad värld
Roger Scruton brukar räknas som Storbritanniens främste konservative filosof. Han har varit professor vid Birkbeck College i London och vid Boston University och gästprofessor i …
How to be a conservative
Roger Scruton’s How to be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative …
Kant: A Very Short Introduction
Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring …
I Drink Therefore I am
Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of …
Wagner's Parsifal
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 …
Aesthetics Volume II
Dietrich von Hildebrand's Comprehensive, Two-Volume Work on Beauty. The first volume develops an original theory of the beautiful, and the second applies that theory with …
Politics Of Culture Other Essays
Under omprövning : en antologi om konst, kanon och kvalitet
Under omprövning rymmer ett stort antal bidrag som förenas av att de utifrån ett kritiskt perspektiv diskuterar vår tids mest karakteristiska estetiska hållningar och konstnärliga …
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, …
Theogony / Works and Days
Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod's two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet's essential meditative insights that paved the way for the …
Philosophy
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention …