Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

Roger Vernon Scruton (* 27. Februar 1944) ist ein britischer Schriftsteller und Philosoph. Er ist Forschungsprofessor am Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Crystal City (Virginia).

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Scruton studierte Philosophie an der University of Cambridge (B.A., 1965 und M.A., 1967) und wurde dort 1972 mit einer Arbeit über Ästhetik promoviert.

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Scruton lehrte von 1971 bis 1992 am Birkbeck College. Von 1992 bis 1995 war er Professor an der Boston University. Seit 2005 ist er am Institute for the Psychological Sciences.

Scruton hat über 30 Bücher geschrieben, viele davon wurden übersetzt.

Roger Scruton gilt als intellektueller Hauptvertreter paläokonservativer Standpunkte.

Bücher

  • Art and Imagination (1974)
  • The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979)
  • The Meaning of Conservatism (1980, second edition 1984, 3rd edn. 2000)
  • The Politics of Culture and Other Essays (1981)
  • Fortnight's Anger (a novel) (1981)
  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1982, second edition 1995, 3rd edn. 2001)
  • A Dictionary of Political Thought (1982, second edition 1996, third edition 2007)
  • The Aesthetic Understanding (1983, new edition 1997)
  • Kant (1983, new edn., 2001)
  • Untimely Tracts (1985)
  • Thinkers of the New Left (1986)
  • Sexual Desire (1986)
  • Spinoza (1987, new edn. 2002)
  • A Land Held Hostage (Lebanon and the West) (1987)
  • The Philosopher on Dover Beach and other essays (1989)
  • Francesca (1991)
  • A Dove Descending and other stories (1991)
  • Xanthippic Dialogues (1993)
  • Modern Philosophy (1994)
  • The Classical Vernacular: architectural principles in an age of nihilism (1995)
  • Animal Rights and Wrongs (1996, third edn. 2000)
  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy (1996)
  • The Aesthetics of Music (1997)
  • On Hunting (1998)
  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998, new edn. 2000)
  • Spinoza (1998)
  • Perictione in Colophon (2000)
  • England: an Elegy (2001)
  • The West and the Rest (2002)
  • Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (2004)
  • News from Somewhere: On Settling (2004)
  • Gentle Regrets (2005)
  • A Political Philosophy (2006)
  • Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (2007)

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