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The Disappeared by Roger Scruton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55The Disappeared is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. It is the story of Stephen, a teacher whose love for the pupil who shares his dreams brings him face to face... -
How to be a conservative by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.88Roger Scruton's How to be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the... -
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.60'His moral courage shines through from the start.' - Sunday Telegraph The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one... -
The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.03In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these... -
England: An Elegy by Sir Roger Scruton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.94In this poignant and personal tribute, Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues. Covering... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 9780691168753
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.85A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of... -
The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton 9781587315039
Booksplease Price: $19.94First 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... -
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile by Roger Scruton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.63Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom... -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles... -
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Kant by Roger Scruton 9780192875778 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $3.62Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to... -
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with... -
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through... -
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.51Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts... -
Music as an Art Sir Roger Scruton 9781472955715
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical... -
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley 9781472917096
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $32.47A 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... -
News from Somewhere: On Settling by Roger Scruton 9780826490919
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17For a number of years, Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the "Financial Times" on country matters. Always beautifully written, one of these pieces ("Vegetables") won the 2002 prize... -
Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition Roger Scruton 9781912559343
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each "confession" reveals aspects of the author's thinking that his... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present... -
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton 9781848871991
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives... -
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.69Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780199928088
RRP: $48.23Booksplease Price: $39.73A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's... -
Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton by Daniel J Mahoney
Booksplease Price: $22.45The Western inheritance is under sustained theoretical and practical assault. Legitimate self-criticism has given way to nihilistic self-loathing and cultural, moral, and political repudiation is the... -
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley 9781399404877
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.56The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This... -
The Penguin History of the Church: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.85The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperbackBenjamin Britten was Britain's greatest... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.67A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner 9780241422281
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic... -
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.47Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures... -
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of...