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A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Routledge Classics
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Des ...Show more
Conservatism - An Invitation to Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Politics
This program includes an introduction read by the author.A brief, magisterial audiobook introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain's leading intellectuals.In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers listeners an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and ...Show more
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such ...Show more
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
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Category: Reference
In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the wor ...Show more
How to be a Conservative by Roger Scruton
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Category: Politics
What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what ...Show more
I Drink Therefore I am : A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
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Category: Wine
Music As an Art by Roger Scruton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for m ...Show more
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
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Category: Critical Thinking
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that huma ...Show more
Philosophy - Principles and Problems by Roger Scruton
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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 throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philo ...Show more
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures by Roger Scruton
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Category: Religion
Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the trans ...Show more
The Ring of Truth by Roger Scruton
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Category: Music
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger S ...Show more
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner' Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger S ...Show more