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Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life

Thoughts from a Life

  • Paperback
  • 260 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 14 x 21.5 x 2 cm

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These autobiographical essays are the nearest Roger Scruton has ever got to writing a full autobiography. Written as always in beautiful and limpid prose, they show rare insight into the mind and personality of one of the most admired and yet often reviled intellectuals of our time. Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority in the field, his defence of political conservatism has marked him out in academic circles as public enemy number one. Whether it is Scruton's opinions that get up the nose of his critics, or the wit and erudition with which he expresses them, there is no doubt that their noses are vastly distended by his presence, and constantly on the verge of a collective sneeze. Contrary to orthodox opinion, however, Roger Scruton is a human being, and "Gentle Regrets" contains the proof of it - a quiet, witty but also serious and moving account of the ways in which life brought him to think what he thinks, and to be what he is.;His moving vignettes of his childhood and later influences illuminate this book. Love him or hate him, he will engage you in an argument that is both intellectually stimulating and informed by humour.
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  • Author

    Sir Roger Scruton

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    February 2006

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    309g

  • Page Count

    260

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.5 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826480330

  • ISBN-10

    0826480330

  • Eden Code

    110654

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