Conversations with Roger ScrutonBloomsbury Publishing, 19 mei 2016 - 224 pagina's 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. |
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2 Becoming a Philosopher | 29 |
3 Becoming a Conservative at Birkbeck | 39 |
4 Some Thoughts on British Philosophy | 57 |
5 Eastern Europe | 65 |
6 Why Architecture? | 85 |
7 Why Sex? | 101 |
8 Leaving Birkbeck for Boston | 113 |
10 Sinful Pleasures | 139 |
11 Rediscovering Religion | 151 |
12 Living as a Writer | 169 |
13 Making Music | 179 |
14 Acceptance | 191 |
Afterword | 200 |
Notes | 201 |
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