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Culture Counts

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Culture Counts

By Roger Scruton

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About the book

What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumors of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm that sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of "dead white European males." Ranging widely over the arts and philosophy, Scruton defends what Eliot c...Show more

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9781641770330

Publisher

Encounter Books,USA

Published year

2018

Language

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1

Original title

Culture Counts

Format

Hardcover

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