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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.

Essere conservatore book pdf download By Roger Scruton

“Essere conservatore” condensa e aggiorna le riflessioni che il filosofo Roger Scruton va svolgendo dai primi anni 1970 sulle origini, gli sviluppi e i vari aspetti di quel pensiero conservatore anglosassone che trova in Edmund Burke alla fine del secolo XVIII uno dei «padri fondatori». Alla luce dei suoi princìpi, e di una fitta trama di riferimenti culturali, Scruton sottopone a critica serrata le varie correnti ideologiche che dominano la scena della politica attuale – il nazionalismo, l’ambientalismo, per esempio, ma anche l’islamismo. Ne scaturisce un’agile apologia del conservatorismo, una prospettiva che solo a tratti è riuscita a «bucare» la cultura post-illuministica dominante nel mondo occidentale lungo tutto l’Ottocento e il Novecento, ma non per questo è meno fondata nei suoi presupposti critici e positivi.

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