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First published in 1980, The Meaning of Conservatism is now recognized as a major contribution to political thought, and the liveliest and most provocative modern statement of the traditional "paleo-conservative" position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents. Conservatism, he argues, has little in common with liberalism, and is only tenuously related to the market economy, to monetarism, to free enterprise, or to capitalism. It involves neither hostility toward the state, not the desire to limit the state's obligation toward the citizen. Its conceptions of society, law, and citizenship regard the individual not as the premise but as the conclusion of politics. At the same time it is fundamentally opposed to the ethic of social justice, to equality of station, opportunity, income, and achievement, and to the attempt to bring major institutions of society - such as schools and universities - under government control.
Its root conceptions are those of loyalty, allegiance, community, and tradition. The conservative vision of society is one in which autonomous institutions and private initiative predominate, and in which the law protects the shared values that bind the community together, rather than the rights of those who would blow the community apart.

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Author of dozens of books on politics, philosophy (especially aesthetics), and history, Roger Scruton is one of the premier public intellectuals Britain has produced in the past 30 years.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Augustines Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2014
Edition ‏ : ‎ Third
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1587315033
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1587315039
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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Roger Vernon Scruton, FBA, FRSL (/ˈskruːtən/; born 27 February 1944) is an English philosopher who specialises in aesthetics. He has written over thirty books, including Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), Sexual Desire (1986), The Philosopher on Dover Beach (1990), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), Beauty (2009), How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012), Our Church (2012), and How to be a Conservative (2014). Scruton has also written several novels and a number of general textbooks on philosophy and culture, and he has composed two operas.

Scruton was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, from 1971 to 1992. Since 1992, he has held part-time positions at Boston University, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the University of St Andrews. In 1982 he helped found The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, which he edited for 18 years, and he founded the Claridge Press in 1987. Scruton sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Aesthetics, and is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Scruton has been called "the man who, more than any other, has defined what conservatism is" by British MEP Daniel Hannan and "England’s most accomplished conservative since Edmund Burke" by The Weekly Standard.

Outside his career as a philosopher and writer, Scruton was involved in the establishment of underground universities and academic networks in Soviet-controlled Central Europe during the Cold War, and he has received a number of awards for his work in this area.

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Scruton does not need to be part of the Academia - which, thank God, he is no longer - to write wittily and with (very) consistent arguments. Do not miss his fine lines...

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Great background reading; great for students
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I gave it 4 stars because it applies more to British Conservatism than American style Conservatism, as there are some significant differences. If not for this quibble I would have given it the 5* treatment. I think this is an outstanding choice for students who might be interested in deviating from their professor's Leftist reading list.

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John Keifer
Scruton is always good. This is aimed pretty much at the English
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Scruton is always good. This is aimed pretty much at the English, however.

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Aburrido, desordenado
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La verdad es que el libro fue muy decepcionante. No tiene una estructura clara, las ideas se repiten y está muy mal organizado. Además tiene un inglés muy rebuscado, no se hace cómoda su lectura.

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The author is as analytic as Bertrand Russell. Not to be read quickly.

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As always with Roger Scruton, this is a clear ...
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As always with Roger Scruton, this is a clear and lucid account of the true meaning of Conservatism which may come as a surprise to some who think the current Conservative party is the real thing. Scruton shows how many of the issues which are currently fashionable actually stemmed from earlier Conservatism and how these have been hijacked by the Left.

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The best modern explanation of conservatism.
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Superb book. Started in 6th form, still re-reading it a decade later.

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