SCRUTON ROGER

(H/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 reflection ...
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(P/B) THE AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is distinguished from other art forms by its sense of function, its localized quality, its technique, its public and nonpersonal character, and its continuity with the decorative arts. In this important book, Roger Scruton calls for a return to first principles in contemporary architectural theory, contending that the aesthetic of architecture is, in its very essence, an aesthetic of everyday life. Aesthetic understanding is inseparable from a sense of detail and style, from which the appropriate, the expressive, the beautiful...
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ANIMAL RIGHTS AND WRONGS
Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties? These and myriad other issues are discussed in this brilliantly argued book. Why are animal-rights groups so keen to protect the rights of badgers and foxes but not those of rats, mice or even humans? How can we bridge the growing gap between rural producers and urban consumers? Why is raising animals for fur more heinous than raising them for their meat? Are we as human beings driving other species either to extinction or to a state of dependency? Covering...
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(P/B) THE USES OF PESSIMISM
In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists, whether of the left or of the right. Rejecting such ideals, we should instead seek to replace such irrational - and pernicious - exuberance with a humane pessimism. Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In...
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(P/B) THE MEANING OF CONSERVATISM

(P/B) THE AESTHETIC UNDERSTANDING

(P/B) SEXUAL DESIRE

(P/B) MODERN CULTURE - AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE

(P/B) THINKERS OF THE NEW LEFT (0382907238)

(P/B) PHILOSOPHY - AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE