This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his
philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British
philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored
and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an
unapologetic conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke. That
conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968.
From that point on Scruton set himself the task of stridently
opposing what he has since termed 'the culture or repudiation'. In
so doing he targeted liberals in the tradition of Russell and Mill,
existentialists like Sartre and post modernists in the fashion of
Foucault.Here is a brilliant description of Scruton's life and work
and a careful analysis of his central ideas. Scruton defends an
Hegelian and Burkean view of human nature, one founded on
allegiance to the State as the guarantor of tangible freedom. He
thus opposes any and all variations of the social contract theory,
liberal or existential individualism or philosophical theories of
the 'authentic' self in isolation from its kind. In recent years
his conservative notion of the nation state has been used to
reflect upon and criticise the European Union, the United Nations
and the idea that the Middle East can be reformed along Western
democratic lines.Scruton, argues the author of this book, is the
one British intellectual who has courageously rowed against the
tide of liberal conviction and has arrived at political conclusions
the truth of which is becoming more and more obvious. This book
argues conclusively that Roger Scruton is a prophet for our times.
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