Eminent writer and philosopher, Professor Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) taught for over three decades at institutions on both sides of the Atlantic including Birkbeck College, Boston University and the University of Buckingham. He was the author of over forty books. In his work as a philosopher he had specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He wrote several works of fiction, as well as memoirs and essays on topics of general interest. He engaged in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and was well known as a powerful polemicist.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy. He was officially honoured by the Czech Republic, by the City of Plzen and by Virginia’s General Assembly. In 2004 he received the Ingersoll Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters. In 2015 he published 3 books, all of which were chosen among publications as ‘Books of the Year’. In 2016 he was recipient of the Polish Lech Kaczynski Foundation’s Medal for Courage and Integrity, was awarded the Italian Masi Prize for the Culture of Wine in recognition of his book I Drink Therefore I Am (Bevo, dunque sono), and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art and Imagination (1974)
The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979)
The Meaning of Conservatism (1980)
The Politics of Culture and Other Essays (1981)
From Descartes to Wittgenstein: A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1981)
A Dictionary of Political Thought (1982)
The Aesthetic Understanding (1983)
Kant (1983)
Untimely Tracts (1985)
Thinkers of the New Left (1985)
Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic (1986)
Spinoza (1987)
A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West (1987)
The Philosopher on Dover Beach and Other Essays (1989)
Conservative Texts (1992)
Modern Philosophy (1994)
The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism (1995)
Animal Rights and Wrongs (1996)
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy (1996); republished in 2005 as Philosophy: Principles and Problems
The Aesthetics of Music (1997)
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture (1998)
On Hunting (1998)
Spinoza (1998)
England: An Elegy (2001)
The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat (2002)
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Oxford University Press, 2004)
News from Somewhere: On Settling (2004)
The Need for Nations (2004)
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (Continuum, 2005)
Animal Rights and Wrongs (2006)
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006)
Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Need to Defend the Nation State (2006)
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (Encounter Books, 2007)
Dictionary of Political Thought (2007)
Beauty (2009)
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine (2009)
Understanding Music (2009)
The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (2010)
Green Philosophy (2011)
The Roger Scruton Reader (2011)
How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012)
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (2012)
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (2012)
The Soul of the World (2014)
How to Be a Conservative (2014)
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015)
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung (2016)
Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016)
Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays (2016)
On Human Nature (2017)
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile (2017)
The State of Britain Now (2017)
Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (2018)
Music as an Art (2018)
Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption (2020)
Fortnight’s Anger: a novel (1981)
Francesca: a novel (1991)
A Dove Descending and Other Stories (1991)
Xanthippic Dialogues (1993)
Perictione in Colophon (2000)
Notes from Underground (2014)
The Disappeared (2015)
Souls in the Twilight (2018)
