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Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life
Roger Scruton
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Description for Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life
Paperback. Written in limpid prose, these autobiographical essays provide an insight into the mind and personality of Roger Scruton. This is a quiet, witty but also serious and moving account of the ways in which life brought him to think what he thinks, and to be what he is. His moving vignettes of his childhood and later influences illuminate this book. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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 conservatism has marked him out in academic circles as public enemy number one. Whether it is Scruton's opinions that get up the nose of his critics, or the wit and erudition with which he expresses them, there is no doubt that their noses are vastly distended by his presence, and constantly on the verge of a collective ... Read more
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 conservatism has marked him out in academic circles as public enemy number one. Whether it is Scruton's opinions that get up the nose of his critics, or the wit and erudition with which he expresses them, there is no doubt that their noses are vastly distended by his presence, and constantly on the verge of a collective ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826480330
SKU
V9780826480330
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About Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton has been professor of Aesthetics at Birbeck College, London and University Professor at Boston University. His other books for Continuum include The West and the Rest and News From Somewhere.
Reviews for Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life
A practised and elegant writer The Independant