A Dove Descending

Sinclair-Stevenson (1991)

From Cyprus to the Hebrides, from London to Prague-Roger Scruton's stories cover a wide geographical area and yet a wider psychological terrain.  Often experimental, but always controlled, the writing propels each story irresistiblly towards its climax, creating unforgettable characters and the atmospheric situations in which their destinies are revealed.

£12.00
SKU RS1856190684
3 In Stock

A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West

Claridge Press 1987

In this book, published in 1987 during the course of Lebanon's civil wars, Roger Scruton explains and defends the old settlement of Lebanon, and the emergence in modern times of the only Arab country in which politicians gained and relinquished office without the aid of bullets. 

£10.00
SKU RS1-870626-00-1
36 In Stock

A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism

Bloomsbury 2006

What principles should govern our relations to the nation-state, to the environment, to other species, to other cultures and toother ways of life? How should we approach marriage, religion, evil and mortality?

£12.00
SKU RS9781472965226
9 In Stock

Against the Tide

Bloomsbury (2022)

The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism. The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume.

£20.00
SKU RS9781472992932
8 In Stock

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

Penguin 1996

"Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it.

£10.00
SKU RS9780140275162
1 In Stock

Animal Rights and Wrongs

Bloomsbury 1996

A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? 

£12.00
SKU RS780826494047
18 In Stock

Be Attitudes

Sundey Hill Press (1997)

Many have been influenced by Sir Roger's ideas and thoughts, but perhaps did not know his range of interests included writing poetry. 

£5.00
SKU Be_Attitudes
4 In Stock

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press 2010

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling.

£8.00
SKU RS9780199229758
12 In Stock

Confessions of a Heretic

Notting Hill Editions 2016

Twelve hard-hitting essays arising from a decade of engagement with the public culture of Britain and America that touch on matters of concern to all intelligent people, in the volatile times in which we live.

£12.00
SKU RS9781910749128
Out of stock

Confessions of a Heretic Revised Edition

Notting Hill Editions 2021

Introduced by Douglas Murray

A collection of twelve provocative essays by the philosopher and political thinker Roger Scruton. Each ‘confession’ reveals an aspect of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself.

£12.00
SKU RS9781912559343
6 In Stock

Conservatism: Ideas in Profile

Profile Books 2017

Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. 

£8.99
SKU RS9781781257524
Out of stock

Conversations with Roger Scruton

Bloomsbury (2016)

This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook.

£12.00
SKU RS9781472917096
9 In Stock

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Oxford University Press 2004

A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms.

£25.00
SKU RS9780199928088
7 In Stock

England: An Elegy

Bloomsbury (2001)

In this poignant and personal tribute Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues.

£15.00
SKU RS9781472983060
10 In Stock

Fools Frauds & Firebrands

Bloomsbury (2015)

The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization.

£14.00
SKU RS9781472935953
6 In Stock

Gentle Regrets

Bloomsbury (2005)

Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration.

£25.00
SKU RS9780826480330 
5 In Stock

Green Philosophy

Atlantic Books (2012)

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources.  

£13.00
SKU RS9781848872028v
12 In Stock

How to be a Conservative

Bloomsbury (2014)

What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected?

£15.00
SKU RS9781472924001
9 In Stock

I Drink Therefore I am

Bloomsbury (2009)

The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem, which was to wrap the drink in religious rituals, to treat it as the incarnation of a god, and to marginalize disruptive behaviour as the god's doing, not the worshipper's.

£12.00
SKU RS9781472969873
6 In Stock

Kant: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press (2001)

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult.

£8.00
SKU RS9780192801999
12 In Stock

Modern Culture

Bloomsbury (2000)

Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn.

£12.00
SKU RS9781472969033
14 In Stock

Modern Philosophy: An introduction and survey

Penguin Books, (1994)

Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate.

£12.99
SKU RS9781844131068
9 In Stock

Music as an Art

Bloomsbury 2018

Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music.

£20.00
SKU RS9781472955715
14 In Stock

News from Somewhere: On Settling

Bloomsbury (2004)

For a number of years Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the Financial Times on country matters.

£13.00
SKU RS9780826490919
6 In Stock

Notes from Underground

Beaufort Books (2014)

Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal.

£12.00
SKU RS9780825307850
34 In Stock

On Human Nature

Princeton University Press (2017)

In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. 

£12.00
SKU RS9780691183039
2 In Stock

On Hunting

Yellow Jersey Press (1998)

Modern people are as given to loving, fearing, fleeing, and pursuing other species as were their hunter-gatherer forebears.

£12.00
SKU RS9780224051538
27 In Stock

Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England

Atlantic Books (2012)

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian.

£12.00
SKU RS9781848871991
5 In Stock

Philosophy: Principles and Problems

Bloomsbury (2005)

Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career.

£12.00
SKU RS9781474288958
19 In Stock

Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach

Bloomsbury (2009)

Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an unapologetic conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke.

£20.00
SKU RS9781847060136
2 In Stock

Soul of the World

Princeton University Press (2014)

The Soul of the World is a defence of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. Our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone.

£13.00
SKU RS9780691169286
8 In Stock

Souls in the Twilight

Beaufort Books (2018)

As the lights that have guided us go out, people begin to wander in the twilight, seeking their place of belonging. In these stories, set in recent times, but before the blinding glare of social media, Roger Scruton describes the remembered landscapes of people who are not where they belong, and not quite where they wished to be.

£10.00
SKU RS9780825308840
47 In Stock

Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University press (2002)

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world.

£8.00
SKU RS9780192803160
21 In Stock

The Aesthetics of Architecture

Princeton University Press (1979)

Scruton takes his readers on a journey through aesthetic theory and tries in every sense to apply them directly to architecture. By using theories from Kant, Marx, Freud, Hume, Alberti, Ruskin and many others on topics such as constructivism, and literary theory, Scruton tries to find the essence of architecture. Has architecture an essence?

£30.00
SKU RS9780691003221
11 In Stock

The Aesthetics of Music

Oxford University Press (1997)

What is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this stimulating volume, Roger Scruton offers a comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy.

£25.00
SKU RS9780198167273
Out of stock

The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism

Carcanet (1995)

Roger Scruton is never less than forthright, and in his lucid and challenging essays on architecture he anatomises the spatial imagination of the age by analysis and comparison.

£25.00
SKU RS9781857540543
36 In Stock

The Disappeared

Bloomsbury (2015)

It is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. The first magazine review by Julie Bindel is published in Standpoint.

£12.00
SKU RS9781448215218
7 In Stock

The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures

Bloomsbury (2012)

Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. 

£12.00
SKU RG6423523656
Out of stock

The Ring of Truth

Penguin (2016)

Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account.

£10.00
SKU RS9780141980720
14 In Stock

The Roger Scruton Reader

Bloomsbury (2009)

The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years.

£20.00
SKU RS9781441115386
1 In Stock

The Uses of Pessimism

Atlantic Books (2010)

The argument of this book proposes  that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. 

£10.00
SKU RS9781848872011
11 In Stock

The West and the Rest

Bloomsbury (2002)

In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization.

£20.00
SKU RS9780826470300
18 In Stock

Understanding Music - Philosophy and Interpretation

Bloomsbury (2009)

Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in this new book he applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms.

£12.00
SKU RS9781474270175
6 In Stock

Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption

Penguin (2020)

There are few writers who can so enhance our understanding of one of the greatest works in western music.

£20.00
SKU RS9780241419694
14 In Stock

Where We Are: The State of Britain Now

Bloomsbury (2017)

Addressing one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern British history, philosopher Roger Scruton asks how, in these circumstances, we can come to define our identity, and what in the coming years will hold us together.

£13.00
SKU RS9781472965141
10 In Stock
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