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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (November 25, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1441170677
  • ISBN-13: 978-1441170675
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsCivilised wine companion
By Sirin on April 28, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Roger Scruton is an oddity. A conservative intellectual (perhaps, that should be prefixed with the definite article), he offers a curiously recidivist philosophy, nostalgic for a past that never really existed anyway. It is easy to dismiss him as many do as an anachronistic fox hunting old fart. But that would be a grave mistake, for Scruton actually has much to say in his quirky highbrow style, about the smashed pint glass of modern culture.

Scruton is unapologetic in his commitment to the civilised life. Yes, he lets himself down occasionally by his taking of bribes from Japanese cigarette manufacturers to write pro smoking articles in the media, but his philosophy is in the Spinoza tradition - an attempt to locate man in his proper place as a creature of society and community, with longings and desires that cannot be satisfied by the hedonistic transience of everyday life.

Not that Scruton is against hedonism, mind you. This book is a testament to his love of literature, philosophy, wine and the life of the mind. Scruton knows his wine, and offers a cheeky and learned defence of the grape with this eloquent disquisition on the emotions and thoughts that good wine can produce in us. Like the diminished seventh of the Tristan chord in Wagner, Scruton finds his pleasures on higher ground than the majority of people. He is very much Mill's Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. And we owe him a glass for that.
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4.0 out of 5 starsQuite lovely, if a bit treacly, old man
By mrthinkndrink on December 31, 2014
Format: Paperback
My study of philosophy ended at approximately the time that my love for wine came fully into bloom. I appreciate both, though wine the more so, as it comforts and befriends whereas philosophy is concerned merely with proving the unprovable. It is, however, a great mental pleasure to indulge now and again in the kind of speculative thought and deep reasoning that characterizes the best of philosophical speculation. And what better companion to such literally heady work than a glass of something wonderful and thought-provoking.

Roger Scruton knows whereof he speaks, which is not to imply that he is always, or even usually, correct. But he does posit some compelling thoughts and relativities. For the non-philosopher, this book requires some chipping away at the high-browed facade to get to "the good stuff." But it's there. A true thinker is rare these days and takes a bit of getting used to. Yet, his huge streak of hedonism, his excellent wine knowledge, especially of lesser known and under-appreciated wines, his love of travel and music and human experience in general all give value to the reader. While this book will be a bit much, a bit dense to many, the mere attempt at digesting it will benefit either or both, the wino or the philosopher.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant
By N. May on February 2, 2014
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Roger Scruton is one of philosophy's hidden treasures. The man seems incapable of writing a boring sentence, and his observations are unfailingly intelligent and deeply insightful. For some reason, almost every reviewer feels obliged to begin his characterization of Scruton with the observation that he is a "conservative" philosopher. This is true - wonderfully so, in this reviewer's opinion - but Scruton's political and intellectual leanings never interfere with the cogency of his arguments (though they no doubt inform them, as they do in all of us). His "Modern Philosophy" is the single best introduction to philosophy I've ever read. (If he would but add a brief appendix on basic propositional and quantifier logic, it would contain the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in philosophy - and then some.) His "I Drink, Therefore I Am," while not a formal primer in philosophy, is a deeply philosophical book, steeped in a love of thinking, tradition, and (of course) wine, with the author's wit and erudition on display on almost every page. Never ponderous, the book is a sheer delight to read and, later, to reflect on, hopefully with a good circle of friends and an artful bottle (or two!) of vino, to help the conversation along (what he calls 'virtuous drinking', an activity always (or almost always) undertaken with friends). Cheers.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe best of this book comes at the bottom of the glass
By Ripple on November 26, 2009
Format: Hardcover
In this book conservative philosopher and composer, Roger Scruton seeks to combine his interest in philosophy with his love of wine. He laments the passing of the Greek "symposiums" where wine was drunk and important issues discussed. The book is certainly interesting, but it is not the jolly, "good humoured antidote to the pretentious clap-trap" that the publishers promise. At least not until the appendix where he suggests what to drink while reading major philosophers' works with is very funny and well written.

He begins by recognising two people influential in his own discovery of wine, which read a little like appreciative retirement speeches to the two gentlemen concerned. He then moves on to discussing in detail French wines and then more briefly other wine regions. Here Scruton's knowledge and enthusiasm are evident, but he is something of a wine `buff' and there is plenty of wine-speak in evidence. Thus he suggests that `the best accompaniment to a bottle of fine old white Hermitage is a clay-baked hedgehog' and if you `roll the name Maillol in your mouth while imagining well-shaped buttocks and well-matured wine, and you won't be far from the taste of Collioure'. Not much of the promise of `an antidote to clap-trap' evident here, then.

In the second half, things get more interesting as he turns to philosophy and the role of wine and the implications of certain ideas to wine. Scruton is one of those writers who lets much of their character and opinion infuse his writing.Read more ›
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