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In “Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption,” Sir Roger Scruton guides us—like Virgil—through the twisty cosmos of Richard Wagner and leaves us at the gates of paradise. Those who desire a treatment of Wagner’s final opera without the... more
The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct Roger Scruton’s views on patriotism and similar attitudes of nationalism and oikophobia that endanger the proper love to homeland. According to Scruton, patriotism is the loyalty toward people... more
A partire dalle idee sulla musica dei filosofi antichi, attraverso le concezioni medievali e rinascimentali, il volume considera l'impatto della rivoluzione scientifica, la stagione illuminista e gli sviluppi ottocenteschi, per giungere... more
A review of Roger Scruton's book The Face of God.
Il paper tratta della nozione di “giardino” e di come questo particolare tipo di arte (se si può parlare di arte) e questo particolare tipo di bellezza (se si può parlare di bellezza) è stato affrontato in tre autori: Immanuel Kant, Roger... more
I explore the role of manners in the life of virtue, particularly with regard to their role in cultivating and then expressing virtue. The topic of manners is largely neglected among moral philosophers and when manners are discussed they... more
Recensione al libro di R. Scruton, "Sulla natura umana", Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2018
A collection of studies on the sociology of Islam, Islam in the West, and the status of women and the status of rationality in Islamic societies.
El propósito de este artículo es analizar el modo en que se vincula el conservadurismo y el liberalismo económico a partir de la crítica de Roger Scruton a Friedrich A. Hayek. Primero se analizan los conceptos de libertad negativa, orden... more
An Analysis of the Causes of the Success of the Glorious Revolution and of the Defects of the Social Contract Theory that went with it.
This paper discusses Roger Scruton's theory of kitsch and investigates it relation to totalitarianism, through the figure of stupidity as discussed by Robert Musil. This threefold relationship, Scruton conceptualizes as a "spiritual... more
Ο αυνανισμός κατά παράδοση αξιολογείται από τη θεολογική και τη φιλοσοφική σκέψη ως παρέκκλιση και διαστροφή, θεώρηση που στην σκέψη του Immanuel Kant βρίσκει την απόλυτη φιλοσοφική της τεκμηρίωση. Ο Roger Scruton στο έργο του Sexual... more
In this Mphil dissertation, I investigate the philosophical relation between the Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka and the British conservative Roger Scruton. In the late seventies, both were involved in Czech dissidence against the... more
In his philosophical writings, Coleridge increasingly developed his thinking about imagination, a symbolizing precursor to contemplation, to a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of... more
Review of Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley (2009)
Resenha do documentário "Por que a beleza importa" ("Why Beauty Matters"), de Roger Scruton.
Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) fue un filósofo conservador, incómodo, independiente, autor de más de cincuenta libros. Sobre cuestiones estéticas destacan sus ensayos Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of Mind (1974), The... more
Entretien, Christiane Chauviré et Théo Bélaud
ERRATA : dans la note 55 de ce texte, la citation de Mann est extraite du Docteur Faustus (même pagination) et non, bien sûr, de Confessions d'un apolitique.
ERRATA : dans la note 55 de ce texte, la citation de Mann est extraite du Docteur Faustus (même pagination) et non, bien sûr, de Confessions d'un apolitique.
Scruton loved Wagner. The two were a match made in heaven, or hell, depending on your perspective and appreciation of irony.
Статья состоит из трех частей. В первой части содержится критический обзор таких тем, как отношение художника к природе, соотношение изображения природы с художественным вкусом в британской эстетике, начиная с XVIII века. Во второй части... more
i write from a sense that we do not always have a clear conception of what we are doing when we philosophize about art. However, I have a subsidiary aim which is to try to understand and adjudicate one area of apparent disagreement... more
Roger Scruton is not much interested in the God of the typical philosopher of religion, and his work is of great significance to those, like myself, for whom questions of spirituality and praxis are just as important as those pertaining... more
In this chapter, I revisit my article ‘On Probation: “Tracey Emin” as Sign’ (Wasafiri, 2010), to pose the question anew of what ‘Emin’ stands for in the widely diverse discourses that claim to address her and her work. Despite her recent... more
Liverpool University, undergraduate level philosophy. 'Reading and Writing philosophy' module, first assignment.
I examine Roger Scruton's account of the religious and soteriological significance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. The relation between Scruton and Wagner remains unclear, and the position at issue is a curious amalgam of the two. I refer... more
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What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything... more
This essay gives an account of how traditional morality is best understood and also why it is worth defending (even if some reform is needed) and how this might be done. Traditional morality is first contrasted with supposedly more... more
The receipt of an intimate substance, implicates a materiality of the deep. The wine, a raw material and not material, is opened by the Philosophy of the Imaginary by Gaston Bachelard. An infinity cosmology begins by the essences, the... more
[Botuar fillimisht ne revisten SHENJA, Shkup, 2017] Mediat e varura lajmërojnë, në mënyrë të përsëritur, çeljen e një departamenti të ri të filozofisë pranë Universitetit Europian të Tiranës (UET). Ai, mësojmë, do t'i kushtohet i tëri dhe... more