Hovory s Rogerem Scrutonem

Published: 2021
Pages: 332
Format: 13,5×20 cm
Binding: hardback
Obor: Philosophy
ISBN: 978-80-210-9886-2 Translation by: Danielová Kateřina, Dvořáková Martina
Series: Poprvé v češtině, Vol. 6
Co-edition: Books & Pipes.

MARK Dooley

Original title: Conversations with Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020), a British conservative philosopher, aesthetician, political thinker, writer, and musician, is well known in the Czech context – not only through his many books. He was a great friend of our country: during the communist period he organised clandestine educational seminars in private apartments, and after 1989 he helped the transition from totalitarianism to democracy, particularly in the field of higher education. This book of interviews conducted by the writer Mark Dooley offers a detailed and intimate account of Scruton’s personal and professional life, presenting this remarkable man in a new light.

A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe. Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on a Wiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.

Introduction to Czech edition is written by Petr Pithart.

This is the sixth volume of the "First time in Czech" series. The aim of the series is to provide access to the important scientific and popular science books to Czech readers.