
Confessions of a Heretic
Selected Essays
Roger Scruton(Author)
Notting Hill Editions (Publisher)
Published on 10. March 2016
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Hardback
208 pages
978-1-910749-12-8 (ISBN)
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This collection of essays arises from a decade of engagement with the public culture of Britain and America. Some have been published in print or on-line; some are appearing here for the first time. I describe them as confessions, since they reveal aspects of my thinking which, if I am to believe the critics, ought to have been kept to myself. I have weeded out material of an academic kind, and have tried to include only those essays that touch on matters of concern to all intelligent people, in the volatile times in which we live. Scrutopia, Christmas 2015
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Jive talkin': top philosopher says modern dance has lost its soul. Professor Roger Scruton bemoans the way formal dances have been replaced by 'jerking like a frog' - Dalya Alberge on Dancing Properly The ObserverMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910749-12-8 (9781910749128)
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Person
Roger Scruton is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over forty books, including Notes from Underground (2014), The Disappeared (2015) and Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015). He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.
Content
1 Faking It 2 Loving Animals 3 Governing Rightly 4 Dancing Properly 5 Building to Last 6 Effing the Ineffable 7 Hiding behind the Screen 8 Mourning our Losses: Reflection on Strauss's Metamorphosen 9 Branding the Bottle 10 Dying in Time 11 Conserving Nature 12 Defending the West