Where We Are

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While everyone else panics and reacts, Scruton thinks. And produces answers. -- Douglas Murray Scruton, a political philosopher who was formerly professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, has such a harmonious writing style that one could almost imagine this essay being set to music ... I found this strangely moving, and that's more than can be said for your standard work of political philosophy. -- Dominic Lawson * Sunday Times * A worthwhile description of how nationhood could help us regain a feeling of community, without sparking the surge in national chauvinism that EU supporters claim would result. * Daily Telegraph * We need a national debate about the kind of country we now hope to be; and we need it now. It is at such moments that nations turn to their philosophers ... High on any such list is Sir Roger Scruton ... At the heart of Scrutonian thought, however, lies the insight encapsulated in the title of his latest book: Where We Are. For this is above all an analysis of what we mean by a sense of place, of identity, of country. -- Daniel Johnson * Editor, Standpoint *