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A 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 compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from...
'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. Roger Scruton's brilliant and passionate exploration of the drama,...
A 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 arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the...
It has become increasingly apparent that in Britain the relationship between town and country is breaking down and that both are in crisis: policies concerning urbanisation, industry, housing and transport are in disarray, while new issues have arisen concerning the...
Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half. And yet, as...
This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982. 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought providing an indispensable guide to the thought, the wisdom and the folly of modern...
Benedict 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 secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and...
Now available in paperback, this is perhaps the first comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy, and the only treatment of the subject which is properly illustrated with music examples. The book starts from...
Dans cette synthèse majeure, Roger Scruton passe au crible les travaux des penseurs qui ont le plus influencé la gauche depuis 1945. De Sartre à Foucault en passant par Thompson, Habermas, Hobsbawm, Derrida ou Badiou : aucun des grands intellectuels de la gauche de...
« En France, qu’il vienne d’ici ou d’ailleurs, le conservatisme a mauvaise presse : quand pour certains tout commence à la Révolution française, que la liberté ne se conçoit que comme table rase et que le Progrès et le progressisme jouent le rôle de religion moderne, on...
Les anciens avaient trouvé une solution au problème de l’alcool : ils l’intégraient aux rituels religieux, le considéraient comme l’incarnation d’un dieu et écartaient le comportement perturbateur comme étant le fait du dieu et non de l’adorateur. Peu à peu, grâce à la...
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