Roger Scruton

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Roger Scruton : biography

27 February 1944 –

Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944 in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire ) is an English philosopher who specialises in aesthetics. He has written over thirty books, including Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), Sexual Desire (1986), The Philosopher on Dover Beach (1990), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), Beauty (2009), and Our Church (2012). Scruton has also written two novels, a number of general textbooks on philosophy and culture, and composed two operas.

Scruton was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, from 1971 to 1992. Since 1992, he has held part-time positions at Boston University, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the University of St Andrews., roger-scruton.com, accessed 5 September 2010.

  • For St. Andrews, see , School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St Andrews, accessed 27 December 2010. In 1982 he helped found The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, which he edited for 18 years, and he founded the Claridge Press in 1987. Scruton sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Aesthetics,, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, accessed 5 December 2010.
  • , British Journal of Aesthetics, accessed 6 December 2010. and is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Outside his career as a philosopher and writer, Scruton was involved in the establishment of underground universities and academic networks in Soviet-controlled Central Europe during the Cold War,Day, Barbara. . The Claridge Press, 1999, pp. 281–282 and he has received a number of awards for his efforts in this area.

Publications

Nonfiction
  • Art And Imagination (1974).
  • The Aesthetics Of Architecture (1979).
  • The Meaning Of Conservatism (1980).
  • The Politics Of Culture and Other Essays (1981).
  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1982).
  • A Dictionary Of Political Thought (1982).
  • The Aesthetic Understanding (1983).
  • Kant (1983).
  • Untimely Tracts (1985).
  • Thinkers Of The New Left (1986).
  • Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic (1986).
  • Spinoza (1987).
  • A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West (1987).
  • The Philosopher On Dover Beach and Other Essays (1989).
  • Conservative Texts (1992).
  • Modern Philosophy (1994).
  • The Classical Vernacular: architectural principles in an age of nihilism (1995).
  • Animal Rights and Wrongs (1996).
  • An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Philosophy (1996); republished in 2005 as Philosophy: Principles and Problems.
  • The Aesthetics Of Music (1997).
  • An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture (1998).
  • On Hunting (1998).
  • Spinoza (1998).
  • England: An Elegy (2001).
  • The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the terrorist threat (2002).
  • Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (2004).
  • News From Somewhere: On Settling (2004).
  • The Need for Nations (2004).
  • Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005).
  • Animal Rights and Wrongs (2006).
  • A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006).
  • Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Need to Defend the Nation State (2006).
  • Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (2007).
  • Beauty (2009).
  • I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine (2009).
  • Understanding Music (2009).
  • The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (2010).
  • How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012).
  • The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (2012).