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Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

Conservatisme book pdf download By Roger Scruton

Si le conservatisme est une manière particulière d’être, un « tempérament » – qui revendique sa part dans toutes les activités humaines, les arts, la musique, la littérature, la science, la religion et, bien sûr, la politique -, la philosophie politique à laquelle il a donné son nom est issue quant à elle de trois grandes révolutions : la Glorieuse révolution anglaise de 1688, la Révolution américaine achevée en 1783 et la Révolution française de 1789. C’est l’histoire de ce courant de pensée mal aimé et mal connu que le philosophe Roger Scruton, l’un de ses plus éminents représentants, retrace ici avec brio. L’image d’Épinal du conservateur nostalgique, réactionnaire, dont la pensée, comme toujours en deuil, ne semble tournée que vers le passé se trouve fortement remise en question par Roger Scruton, qui révèle l’étendue et la richesse insoupçonnée de cette tradition intellectuelle.

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