A Rebel Against Rebellion

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The University Bookman:

Richard Cocks

Aug. 22 2016

 

Conversations with Roger Scruton

by Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley.

 

Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016.

Hardcover, 213 pages, $28.

 

Roger Scruton’s (b. 1944) conservatism has scandalized the bulk of the British intellectual community since the 1970s. This thinker and writer’s prolific output ranges over topics that include music, architecture, beauty, politics, philosophy, sexual desire, and God. He has written works of fiction and composed music. His usually accessible style, conservatism, insight, and interesting topics have provided him with an enthusiastic and relatively large readership among those who reject what he calls “the culture of repudiation,” a culture that relentlessly criticizes and abjures Western civilization and traditions in toto.

 

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