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Against the Tide - The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton; Mark Dooley (Edited by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume, edited by Mark DooleyThe philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of the post-war years. In this book are assembled the very best of his essays and co ...Show more
Beauty by Roger Scruton
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. Here, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an obje ...Show more
Beauty - A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
$26.00 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, ...Show more
Conservatism by Roger Scruton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Ideas in Profile
Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. ...Show more
Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg by Roger Scruton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew u ...Show more
Gentle Regrets : Thoughts from a life by Roger Scruton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority in the field, his defence of political conservatis ...Show more
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet by Roger Scruton
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy, Roger Scruton shows the fallacies behind that way of ...Show more
Kant - A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
$21.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: very good
Kant is one of the most influential modern philosophers, but also one of the most difficult. This book explores the background to Kant's work, and shows why the "Critique of Pure of Reason" has proved so enduring.
Music As an Art by Roger Scruton
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for m ...Show more
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that huma ...Show more
Philosophy : Principles and Problems by Roger Scruton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Continuum Compact S.
This is a personal view of philosophy from a renowned critic and thinker. In it, Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments that attracted him to the subject and which have engaged his attention. He attempts to show how philosophy is relevant not just to intellectual questions, but to life in the ...Show more
Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Presents a defence of social order, beginning from philosophical first principles which aims to be a systematic answer to liberal egalitarianism, and also a defence of the Western social, religious, cultural and political inheritance. This book also demonstrates that this inheritance is a reflection of ...Show more