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Modern Culture

Modern Culture

by Sir Roger Scruton (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 13 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1472969030
ISBN 13: 9781472969033

Media Reviews
. . .Scruton offers both a trenchant critique of pop culture and a defense of the opposing high culture.. .. Many readers may find themselves asking whether moral aestheticism, without any explicit religious element, can deal with the more destructive aspects of modern culture. - Robert Grano, Touchstone, October 2006 --Touchstone: Journal of Mere Christianity
Author Bio
Sir ROGER SCRUTON is a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy and politics, including Kant and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy. He is widely translated. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches in both England and America and is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. He is currently teaching an MA in Philosophy for the University of Buckingham.