SCRUTON ROGER

(P/B) A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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 Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He identifies all the principal figures as well as outlines of the main intellectual preoccupations that have informed western philosophy. Pai...
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗΣ ΦΥΣΗΣ
Σ' αυτό το μικρό βιβλίο, ο καταξιωμένος συγγραφέας και φιλόσοφος Roger Scruton εκθέτει μια αυθεντική και ριζοσπαστική αντίληψη της ανθρώπινης μοναδικότητας. Αντικρούοντας τις απόψεις των εξελικτικών ψυχολόγων, των ωφελιμιστών ηθικολόγων και των υλιστών φιλοσόφων, όπως ο Richard Dawkins και ο Daniel Dennett, ο Roger Scruton ισχυρίζεται ότι δεν μπορούμε να αντιλαμβανόμαστε τα ανθρώπινα όντα απλώς ως βιολογικά αντικείμενα. Δεν είμαστε μόνο ανθρώπινα ζώα· είμαστε επίσης άτομα που βρισκόμαστε σε ουσιώδη σχέση με άλλα άτομα και συνδεόμαστε μ' αυ...
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ΣΠΙΝΟΖΑ
Ο Σπινόζα γεννήθηκε για να παρεξηγηθεί. Η θεολογία του κατηγορήθηκε ότι είναι μια θεολογία χωρίς θεό. Στο μοναδικό και άκρως σημαντικό έργο του με τίτλο «Ηθική» θέτει τα ερωτήματα που απασχολούν τον άνθρωπο από καταβολής κόσμου. Ποιοι είμαστε; Από τι αποτελείται ο κόσμος; Τι είμαστε εμείς οι άνθρωποι μέσα στο σχήμα των πραγμάτων; Είμαστε ελεύθεροι; Γιατί υπάρχουμε; Πώς θα έπρεπε να ζούμε; Γιατί είμαστε εμείς κι όχι κάποιοι άλλοι; Τα ερωτήματα αυτά απασχόλησαν τον φιλόσοφο στο σύνολο του έργου του, ερωτήματα που απασχολούν και σήμερα κάθε...
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ΤΡΕΛΟΙ ΤΣΑΡΛΑΤΑΝΟΙ ΤΑΡΑΧΟΠΟΙΟΙ
Το βιβλίο του Roger Scruton "Τρελοί, Τσαρλατάνοι, Ταραχοποιοί" αποτελεί μια συντριπτική κριτική της σύγχρονης αριστερής σκέψης. Εξετάζοντας τους συγγραφείς της Νέας Αριστεράς που κυριάρχησαν στον φιλοσοφικό δημόσιο διάλογο για πάνω από πενήντα χρόνια -Χομπσμπάουμ, Τόμσον και Μίλιμπαντ Σαρτρ, Φουκώ και Ντελέζ Αντόρνο, Λούκατς και Χάμπερμας Γκράμσι, Μπαντιού και Ζίζεκ ο Scruton επικρίνει τις ιδέες τους, αφού πρώτα επιχειρεί να εξηγήσει το έργο τους. Σε όλους τους παραπάνω διανοητές, υποστηρίζει ο Scruton, η κενή ρητορική υπερισχύει της π...
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ΠΩΣ ΝΑ (ΜΗΝ) ΕΙΣΤΕ ΣΥΝΤΗΡΗΤΙΚΟΙ
Τι σημαίνει να είναι κανείς συντηρητικός σε μια εποχή που ο συντηρητισμός αντιμετωπίζεται με μισό μάτι; Πώς μπορούμε να συνεχίσουμε να εμπνεόμαστε από τους "σπουδαίους άντρες" του παρελθόντος όταν η πολιτισμική, θρησκευτική και πολιτική τους παρακαταθήκη απορρίπτεται; Όταν ο αριστερόστροφος κοινωνικός φιλελευθερισμός είναι η ηγέτιδα δύναμη στην πολιτική ζωή της Δύσης, πώς μπορούν οι συντηρητικοί του σήμερα να συνεισφέρουν στον δημόσιο διάλογο χωρίς ο λόγος τους να ακυρωθεί ως νοσταλγικός και παλιομοδίτικος; Σε αυτό το πολύ προσωπικό και πα...
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(P/B) SPINOZA
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, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In this book Roger Scruton presents a clear and systematic analysis of Spinoza's thought, and shows its relevance to today's intellectual preoccupatio...
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(P/B) BEAUTY
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 viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and examining how we can compare differing judgements of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgem...
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(P/B) KANT
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 the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AESTHETICS OF MUSIC

(P/B) THE SOUL OF THE WORLD
In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive - and to understand what we are - is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things. Rather than an argument for the existence of God, or a defense of the truth of religion, the book is an extended reflectio...
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(P/B) A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment and other ways of life? What does modern marriage look like? What is Enlightenment and how has its inheritance made itself known? How should we approach religion, evil and death? What explains the rise of totalitarianism and how should we respond to nihilism? In these philosop...
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(P/B) FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS
A devastating critique of New Left thinking 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 works of Althusser, Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou and Zizek. Scruton ponders why the humanities have become so unambiguously aligned to the left, and reveals how fully such thinking has seized the academy in...
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(H/B) MUSIC AS AN ART
Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music. Scruton then explains - via erudite chapters on Schubert, Britten, Rameau, opera and film - how we can develop greater judgement in music, recognising both good taste and bad, establishing musical values, as well as musical pleasures. As Scruton...
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THE PALGRAVE MACMILLAN DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Roger Scruton's Dictionary of Political Thought has been widely acclaimed as a profound and incisive guide to political ideas. This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary political changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982, bringing the Dictionary right up to date. Some 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought, defining concepts and ideologies, surveying the arguments on issues, giving capsule histories of political institutions, and summarizing (with newly expanded treatment) the thou...
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(H/B) ON HUMAN NATURE
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 human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world, exhibiting fr...
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(P/B) HOW TO BE A CONSERVATIVE
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 can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? In this highly personal and witty book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explains how to live as a conservative in spite of the pressures to e...
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(P/B) THE ROGER SCRUTON READER
The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts (2007). The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays. It is made up of five sections - the last section of all contains some of Scruton's most pugilistic pieces on Dawkins and on The Iraq War. Scruton holds Burkean political views and his book The Meaning of Conservatism was ...
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(P/B) I DRINK THEREFORE I AM
We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts. This good-humoured book offers an antidote to the pretentious clap-trap that is wr...
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(H/B) FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS
The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm. In additio...
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(P/B) THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
"Social Contract" takes up an argument which had begun with Bodin and Hobbes, and been continued by Grotius, Spinoza, and Locke to form the foundation of political thinking in the eighteenth century. But it is both more and less than that implies: more in expressing the "sensibilite" of its author, writing with a grasp of rhythm and rhetorical effect that puts him in another class from all his predecessors save Hobbes; less in taking shortcuts to radical conclusions that are justified not by the power of argument but by the weight of senti...
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