<p>Roger Scruton is arguably the greatest living English philosopher. A prolific author of fifty books, composer of two operas, controversial columnist and academic dissident, he has stood at the heart of the intellectual life of Britain (and to some extent in the USA) for more than forty years. <br><br>Mark Dooley is Scruton''s intellectual biographer. In these conversations Dooley coaxes Scruton to speak candidly about those whom he has loved and loathed, about his early philosophical influences and about those who have shaped him personally and intellectually. Going deeper than any previous autobiographical statements by Scruton, this book reveals what motivated the philosopher to embrace Kant and Wagner, how he came to know and admire thinkers like Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Mary Midgely, and what he said to the underground seminars in Communist Czechoslovakia and the precise circumstances surrounding his arrest and expulsion from that country.<br><br>It examines what Scr
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<b>The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton''s philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume, edited by Mark Dooley</b>The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of...
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<p><b>Renowned philosopher Roger Scruton draws on his own experience as a counter-culture presence in public life to explain conservatism in a </b><b>skeptical</b><b> age.</b><br><br>With soft left-liberalism...
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