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Roger Scruton is arguably the greatest living English philosopher. A prolific author of fifty books, composer of two operas, controversial columnist and academic dissident, he has stood at the heart of the intellectual life of Britain (and to some extent in the USA) for more than forty years.

Mark Dooley is Scruton's intellectual biographer. In these conversations Dooley coaxes Scruton to speak candidly about those whom he has loved and loathed, about his early philosophical influences and about those who have shaped him personally and intellectually. Going deeper than any previous autobiographical statements by Scruton, this book reveals what motivated the philosopher to embrace Kant and Wagner, how he came to know and admire thinkers like Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Mary Midgely, and what he said to the underground seminars in Communist Czechoslovakia and the precise circumstances surrounding his arrest and expulsion from that country.

It examines what Scruton really thinks of his intellectual and political adversaries and why he believes their message remains a recipe for social collapse. He provides answers as to why he left Birkbeck University College and why he eventually abandoned academia altogether. It also includes insights into daily life on Scruton's farm, his writing routines and his astonishing capacity to produce so prodigiously. Conversations with Roger Scruton asks questions which Roger Scruton has never answered before.

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About the Author

Roger Scruton, the University of Oxford's Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, is also a prolific author. He writes regularly for The Times and The Telegraph.

Mark Dooley was University College Dublin's Newman Scholar of Theology. A regular on Irish radio and TV, he wrote a controversial foreign affairs column for the Sunday Independent, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, and edited The Roger Scruton Reader.

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum (July 26, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 147291709X
ISBN-13: 978-1472917096
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.6 inches
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Wiltshire Table Talk With An Important Thinker and Public Intellectual

August 23, 2016

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Mark Dooley is an Irish teacher and journalist who has previously written on the work of Roger Scruton. This book is the result of a three-day conversation with Scruton at his farm in Wiltshire. It is not written as a formal interview, but rather as a continuous narrative, with Dooley initiating subjects for discussion and Scruton then responding. The text is filled with extended quotes from Scruton’s works that reinforce the narrative. Given the fact that Scruton’s works are very, very far-ranging (he has written on art, architecture, intellectual history, Kant, Spinoza, sex, politics, music, etc. and has composed operas, written novels, taught, created consultancies and worked in think tanks), so is the discussion. Dooley asks intelligent questions, demonstrates a professional familiarity with many of the subjects at issue and is not afraid to get personal. The conversations are in approximate biographical order, so that the book constitutes a mini-biography as well as a latter day example of tischreden or table talk. The talk is more ‘extended’ than epigrammatic and the result is less marmoreal than one sees with Eckerman or Boswell, though it is unfair to compare anyone’s talk—even one as formidable as Scruton—with titans like Goethe and Johnson.

There are some interesting anecdotes and some new facts (that, e.g., RS wrote his introduction to Kant in four days). The book is a pleasant read of some 200 pp. There are no illustrations, but pictures of RS’s farm and family are available on the internet. Readers of Scruton will welcome this set of insights into his life and mind; those coming to him for the first time might even want to begin here, since Scruton talks candidly about his own books—those with which he is most pleased, those that may be a little longer than necessary, and so on. Since Scruton has written at length about the England that is quickly fading from view it is interesting to see him in his native habitat, working as an actual farmer and serving as the organist at his local church. Since he has spent a good bit of time in the United States it is very interesting to hear him discuss such topics as the American political ethos and system of education, from home-schooling to the current state of our universities.

Highly recommended for Scruton readers.

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Highly recommended for those who follow this philosopher's work

February 28, 2017

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Scruton's work is always interesting and ever difficult. Here you get to relax a little from the rigor but nevertheless find that the author has many interesting things to say as always. Highly recommended for those who follow this philosopher's work.

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May 26, 2017

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Wide-ranging interviews by a sensitive interviewer with Roger Scruton, a complex and interesting mind. Among much else, Scruton reveals his persecution in British academia because he dared to be a political conservative, and in his words "to want to keep what you know and love". A very worthwhile read.

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September 4, 2016

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A must for Scruton fans. Fills in a lot of biography that isn't in Gentle Regrets.

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March 6, 2017

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A rich and lively mind that enriches and enlivens us all.

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Miguel Gonçalves

December 10, 2017

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Great book and author! Very good service!

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Essential reading for Scruton fans

March 5, 2017

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This is an ideal addition to the libraries of the many collectors of Roger Scruton's widely-read books. I always find it very insightful to know more about authors themselves if the subject they are covering is something as important as philosophy. I have seen him speak in public and found this book to be very revealing of this great man.

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Interviews Transcribed

May 25, 2017

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Lively, easy-reading book in which Scruton comments orally on various chapters of his interesting life.

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