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Mark Dooley - Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, Häftad

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Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach

An Intellectual Biography

Av Mark Dooley

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An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography of Scruton's many literary works over the years.Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he at best ignored and at worst reviled? In this intriguing portrait Mark Dooley brilliantly illuminates Scruton’s life and offers careful analysis of his work.Considering how Scruton’s conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968, Dooley explores why Scruton set himself the task of stridently opposing what he termed ‘the culture of repudiation’ and how he accomplished it.Covering Scruton’s centrals ideas, such as his view of human nature, opposition of the social contract theory and criticisms of the European Union and United Nationals, Dooley argues that he was a prophet for our times – the one British intellectual who courageously rowed against the tide of liberal conviction and arrived at political conclusions the truth of which are becoming more and more obvious.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-28
  • Mått: 134 x 214 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 220 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781399414197
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Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, author and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology. He has been a columnist for both the Sunday Independent and the Irish Daily Mail, and is currently a Contributing Editor to The European Conservative magazine. His many books include The Roger Scruton Reader, Why Be a Catholic?, Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming, and Conversations with Roger Scruton, all published by Bloomsbury. In 2022, he edited and published Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism. He is Sir Roger Scruton's literary executor.

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With clarity and grace, Mark Dooley's book fully captures the philosophical achievement of the late Roger Scruton. In its pages, Scruton's evocative account of the "life-world" truly comes alive. The world as Scruton describes it, the real world, the one available to the incarnate persons that we are, is one where free and responsible persons are accountable to each other, where sacred or holy things lift us out of our mundane selves, where beauty is real and not invented, and where politics is marked by law, loyalty, and settlement. As Dooley admirably shows, Scruton's urbane and humane thought dares to say "Yes" to our civilized inheritance, and to look up to what endures. Dooley's account of Scruton's life and thought remains a shining achievement, and one very unlikely to be surpassed in the coming years.

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