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A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer, Mark Dooley.

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A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley.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. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe.Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on a Wiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.

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A candid and intimate portrait into the life and work of the philosopher and writer, covering topics ranging from his opinions on the current state of British music to his life on his Wiltshire farm.

Author Biography

Professor Roger Scruton is a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge. He has been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and University Professor at Boston University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC. He has published a large number of books, including some works of fiction, and has written and composed two operas. He writes regularly for The Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator and was for many years wine critic of The New Statesman.Mark Dooley has held lectureships at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar of Theology. From 2003-2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. Dooley is also a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television, and has served as a political speech writer. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), and Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), A Passion for the Impossible (2003), and The Roger Scruton Reader (2009).

Table of Contents

Preface1 Childhood and Cambridge2 Becoming a Philosopher3 Becoming a Conservative at Birkbeck4 Some Thoughts on British Philosophy5 Eastern Europe6 Why Architecture?7 Why Sex?8 Leaving Birkbeck for Boston9 Farming and Family10 Sinful Pleasures11 Rediscovering Religion12 Living as a Writer13 Making Music14 AcceptanceAfterwordNotesIndex

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Details ISBN147291709X Year 2016 ISBN-10 147291709X ISBN-13 9781472917096 Format Hardcover Author Roger Scruton Short Title CONVERSATIONS W/ROGER SCRUTON Language English Media Book Residence Dublin, IE Affiliation University College Dublin Pages 224 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 192 Illustrations No illustrations Publication Date 2016-05-19 Imprint Bloomsbury Continuum UK Release Date 2016-05-19 NZ Release Date 2016-05-19 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General AU Release Date 2016-05-31 We've got this

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