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Author photo. Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.

Roger Scruton (1944-) photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.

Roger Scruton (1944–2020)

Author of Kant: A Very Short Introduction

Includes the names: R. Scruton, R. Scruton, Roger Scruton, Roger Scruton, Roger et.al Scruton

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Works by Roger Scruton

Kant: A Very Short Introduction 735 copies, 4 reviews

Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey 450 copies, 2 reviews

A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein 424 copies

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction 381 copies, 6 reviews

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy 326 copies, 7 reviews

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture 191 copies, 5 reviews

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left 188 copies, 6 reviews

Spinoza 184 copies, 3 reviews

The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat 176 copies, 4 reviews

Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction 174 copies, 2 reviews

Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged 160 copies, 2 reviews

The Meaning of Conservatism 147 copies

The Soul of the World 145 copies, 1 review

A Dictionary of Political Thought 137 copies, 1 review

How to Be a Conservative 125 copies, 1 review

German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche (Contributor) 119 copies

The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope 119 copies, 1 review

Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation 116 copies

The Aesthetics of Architecture 105 copies, 1 review

England: An Elegy 100 copies, 2 reviews

The Aesthetics of Music 97 copies, 1 review

The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures 93 copies

How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental… 89 copies, 1 review

A Political Philosophy 88 copies

I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine 77 copies, 1 review

Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life 71 copies, 1 review

Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition 68 copies, 1 review

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation 66 copies

On Human Nature 65 copies

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung 53 copies

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde 49 copies, 1 review

Animal Rights and Wrongs 49 copies, 2 reviews

Our Church 48 copies, 1 review

On Hunting 42 copies

The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria (Preface) 38 copies, 1 review

Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays 33 copies

The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture… 33 copies

News From Somewhere: On Settling 31 copies

Xanthippic Dialogues 30 copies

Music as an art 26 copies

Art and imagination : a study in the philosophy of mind 26 copies, 1 review

Notes from Underground 22 copies

Philosophy: Principles and Problems 21 copies

Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays 15 copies

Where We Are: The State of Britain Now 15 copies

Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage (The American Spectator) 12 copies

Conservative Thinkers: Essays from the "Salisbury Review" 11 copies

The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism 9 copies

Need For Nations 7 copies

A Dove Descending 7 copies

Untimely Tracts 7 copies

Fortnight's Anger 6 copies

England & the Need for Nations, 2nd Edition 6 copies

The Good Life (Collection) 5 copies

Conservative Texts: An Anthology (Contributor; Editor; Introduction) 5 copies

The Disappeared 5 copies

Perictione in Colophon : reflections on the aesthetic way of life 4 copies

Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption 4 copies

Souls in the Twilight 4 copies

Why I became a conservative.: An article from: New Criterion 3 copies

What Would You Die For? (Birthday Counterpoints) 3 copies

Francesca 3 copies

El alma del mundo (Pensamiento Actual) (Spanish Edition) 3 copies

WHO, what and why? : trans-national government, legitimacy and the World… 3 copies

A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West 3 copies

The Politics of Culture and Other Essays 3 copies

TOWN AND COUNTRY (Editor) 3 copies

EXPERIENCIA ESTETICA, LA 2 copies

Il suicidio dell'Occidente 2 copies

The Uses of Pessimism & the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton… 2 copies

Politics Of Culture Other Essays 1 copy

As Memórias de Underground (Ficções… 1 copy

Town and Country 1 copy

La tradizione e il sacro 1 copy

A society of strangers 1 copy

Słownik myśli politycznej 1 copy

La bellezza. Ragione ed esperienza estetica 1 copy

Over de mens 1 copy

Be Attitudes 1 copy

Conservative Idea of Community 1 copy

Meer dan ontspanning alleen : Over het belang van muziek 1 copy, 1 review

Land rights and legitimacy : three views Critical Issues 1 1 copy

'Sorry!' in TLS 5463, 14 Dec 2007 [review of Griswold's 'Forgiveness'] 1 copy

'Love thy starving neighbour, or his rabbits?' in AFR, 20 April 2001 1 copy

On humane education : an inaugural lecture 1 copy

'The sacred and the human' in Prospect Magazine 137 Aug 2007 1 copy

'A nothing would do as well' in TLS 5709, 31 August 2012 [review of… 1 copy

'It's the ideology, stupid' in TLS 5260, 23 January 2004 [review of David… 1 copy

'Clown Prince of the Revolution: on Slavoj Žižek, a new kind of leftist… 1 copy

'Les élites défaites par les gens ordinaires' in Le Monde, 22 janvier… 1 copy

Understanding Music 1 copy

Marriage: Union for the Future or Contract for the Present 1 copy

Limits to democracy.: An article from: New Criterion 1 copy

Oblicze Boga 1 copy

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Also by Roger Scruton

The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 436 copies, 10 reviews

The Oxford History of Western Philosophy (Contributor) 277 copies

Philosophy 1: A Guide through the Subject (Vol 1) (Contributor) 218 copies

Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered (Foreword, some editions) 135 copies, 1 review

Granta 21: The Story-Teller (Contributor) 117 copies, 1 review

The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the… (Foreword) 114 copies, 6 reviews

The State of the Language [1990] (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (Contributor) 66 copies

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology (Contributor) 55 copies, 2 reviews

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (Contributor) 40 copies

Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a… (Contributor) 38 copies

The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality… (Contributor) 25 copies

The Future of the European Past (Contributor) 23 copies

Religion and the American Future (Contributor) 13 copies

The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (Contributor) 10 copies

A companion to the philosophy of literature (Contributor) 6 copies

Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone: In Search of the Wild Life (Contributor) 5 copies

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Scruton, Roger Vernon

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Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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Brinkworth, Wiltshire, England, UK

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Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

London, England, UK

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Education

University of Cambridge (Jesus College ∙ BA ∙ Moral Sciences ∙ 1965)

University of Cambridge (Jesus College ∙ MA ∙ 1967)

University of Cambridge (Jesus College ∙ PhD ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1972)

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professor at the University of Boston

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University of St Andrews

American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC

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Richard M. Weaver Award (2004)

Medal of Merit (First Class ∙ 1998)

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