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Where We Are: The State of Britain Now

Autor Sir Roger Scruton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2019
WINNER OF THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARD Where We Are is philosopher Roger Scruton's personal response to the consequences of the 2017 'Brexit' vote.This concise, engaging book is neither an argument to 'leave' nor to 'remain' but develops instead some fundamental ideas: What is national identity? What defines our country? Who are we and what holds us together?As Scruton argues, these are the most important political questions of our time, and all across Europe people are beginning to ask them.This book is essential reading for anyone, of whatever political persuasion, interested in what it means to be British, what that might come to mean in future and how we will define our place in a rapidly changing world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472965141
ISBN-10: 1472965140
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: No illustrations
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Though Scruton is prolific, unlike some other English philosophers, his books are written with immense care, clarity and are written in beautiful economic prose

Notă biografică

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and a visiting professor at Oxford University. Scruton died in January 2020.

Cuprins

Preface1 Prelude2 Our Country: Right or Left3 Nations, Nationalism and Us4 Our Country: Right or Wrong5 The Roots of British Freedom6 The Impact of Globalisation 7 Out into the WorldIndexA Note on the Author

Recenzii

While everyone else panics and reacts, Scruton thinks. And produces answers.
Scruton, a political philosopher who was formerly professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, has such a harmonious writing style that one could almost imagine this essay being set to music . I found this strangely moving, and that's more than can be said for your standard work of political philosophy.
A worthwhile description of how nationhood could help us regain a feeling of community, without sparking the surge in national chauvinism that EU supporters claim would result.
We need a national debate about the kind of country we now hope to be; and we need it now. It is at such moments that nations turn to their philosophers ... High on any such list is Sir Roger Scruton ... At the heart of Scrutonian thought, however, lies the insight encapsulated in the title of his latest book: Where We Are. For this is above all an analysis of what we mean by a sense of place, of identity, of country.