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Title: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton ISBN: 1-890318-47-7 Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Twilight of the gods
Comment: This is a great guided tour through the last few centuries of culture. Scruton appears to be an advocate of natural law (the notion that the good will become obvious to the enquiring mind)--believing that the doorway to this epiphany is through high culture. However, he has to go back a century or so to find good examples. It seems that there is nothing worthwhile happening these days. Scruton has a major Wagner thing going on -- they are on the same page as far as the whole twilight of the gods idea goes.
Unfortunately, Wagner is dead and we are left all alone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Probing the white underbelly of postmodernism
Comment: A fascinating tour through the last three centuries of culture. This book gave me my first real grasp of what modern and postmodern labels are all about. Scruton appears to be an advocate of natural law (that which is good becomes obvious to the enquiring mind) perceived through the lens of high culture, music, art etc. However, he tends to go back in time to find relevant examples. As usual with this sort of diatribe there is nothing really good happening in our day. Scruton has a major Wagner thing going on here. His twilight of the gods philosophy goes so well together with Wagner its not surprising. Unfortunately, Wagner is dead. So what is a person to do?
Rating: 3
Summary: A Meditation On Culture
Comment: Scruton's title is somewhat misleading - he's written, not so much a guide to modern culture, as an extended meditation on its history, beginning with Religion, and continuing on through the Enlightenment, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. As you might expect from this philosopher, he does not approve of the trend - "art is the consolation prize for our loss of religion."
The question is, what is to be done about culture, and why should it matter? Scruton's book is engaging and provocative, but short on answers. It is perhaps worth reading as a brief history of how Western culture lost its way. But those who are hoping for an incisive diagnosis, and a clarion call to arms, will come away disappointed.
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Title: The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton ISBN: 189031840X Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat by Roger Scruton ISBN: 1882926811 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton ISBN: 0140275169 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Aesthetics of Music by Roger Scruton ISBN: 019816727X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays by Roger Scruton ISBN: 1890318604 Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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