Sir Roger Scruton was a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics and politics. He was a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He taught in both England and America and was a Visiting Professor at Department of Philosophy and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, he was also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. In 2015 he published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. Fools Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. It includes new chapters covering Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou and some timely thoughts about the historians and social thinkers who led British intellectuals up the garden path during the last decades, including Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband. In 2016 he again published two books, Confessions of A Heretic (a collection of essays) and The Ring of Truth, about Wagner’s Ring cycle, which was widely and favourably reviewed. In 2017 he published On Human Nature (Princeton University Press), which was again widely reviewed, and contains a distillation of his philosophy. He also published a response to Brexit, Where We Are (Bloomsbury).
Series
Books
I Drink Therefore I Am
A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
2009
Music as an Art
2018
A Short History of Modern Philosophy
From Descartes to Wittgenstein
1981
The Roger Scruton Reader
2009
Art and Imagination
A Study in the Philosophy of Mind
1974
The Philosopher on Dover Beach
1876
Liberty and Civilization
The Western Heritage
2010
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy
1996
The Classical Vernacular
Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism
1995
The Aesthetics of Architecture
1979
A Political Philosophy
2006
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
2009
Wagner's Parsifal
The Music of Redemption
2020
German Philosophers
Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
1997
England and the Need for Nations
2004
The Soul of the World
2014
The Aesthetics of Music
1997
Kant
A Very Short Introduction
1983
On Hunting
1998
The West and the Rest
Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
2002
Beauty
A Very Short Introduction
2009
Culture Counts
Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
2007
Animal Rights and Wrongs
2003
Conservatism
An Invitation to the Great Tradition
2017
The Aesthetic Understanding
1656
Spinoza
A Very Short Introduction
1986
Where We Are
The State of Britain Now
2017
The Face of God
The Gifford Lectures
2012
Modern Philosophy
1994
Against the Tide
The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism
2022
Notes from Underground
2014
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
1998
Our Church
A Personal History of the Church of England
2012
News from Somewhere
On Settling
2004
On Human Nature
2017
Xanthippic Dialogues
1994
The Ring of Truth
The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
2016
England
An Elegy
1988
Confessions of a Heretic
2016
Death-Devoted Heart
Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
2003
How to Think Seriously about the Planet
The Case for an Environmental Conservatism
2011
Gentle Regrets
Thoughts from a Life
2006
The Uses of Pessimism
And the Danger of False Hope
2010
The Disappeared
2015
The Meaning of Conservatism
1980
Souls in the Twilight
2018
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
Thinkers of the New Left
1998
Sexual Desire
A Philosophical Investigation
1986
Modern Culture
2005
How to be a Conservative
2014
