Modern Culture by Sir Roger Scruton
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. This book is a must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.
..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 *
Roger Scruton is a philosopher and writer. Formerly Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and Visiting Professor at Boston College, USA. He now lives as a freelance writer in Wiltshire. He has published The West and the Rest, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets with Continuum.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826494443 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826494447 |
| Title | Modern Culture |
| Author | Sir Roger Scruton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2006-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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