What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.
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Roger Vernon Scruton
Filósofo e escritor inglês, especialista em Estética. Tem sido apontado como o intelectual britânico conservador mais bem-sucedido desde Edmund Burke e foi nomeado Cavaleiro da Ordem do Império Britânico pela Rainha Elizabeth II em junho de 2016. Escreveu mais de trinta livros, incluindo Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism[4](1980), Sexual Desire (1986), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006), Beauty (2009), Our Church (2012), How to be a Conservative (2014), The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought e How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012). Também escreveu livros didáticos sobre filosofia e cultura, dois romances, e compôs duas óperas.
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