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Good philosophers have the great ability to talk seriously about the most varied things: pop music, cinema, the sacred and religion, Wagner's music or fantasy and imagination in contemporary art (literature, photography, painting and cinema) and their influence on the configuration of personality. And all this responds to a complete, rigorous analysis, and not exempt of English humor, of what we consider contemporary culture.
In this essay, Roger Scruton argues that the religious origin of culture is the link that unifies all its forms, even those that deny revealed religion and offer a pagan version of divinity. In doing so, the English author argues for a defense of the "high culture" of our civilization against its radical and "deconstructionist" critics, defenders of postmodern nihilism.
Roger Scruton (1944-2020) PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge, and specialist in Aesthetics, was a professor at Birkbeck College in London and at the universities of Boston and St. Andrews. Founder and editor of the journal The Salisbury Reviewand founder of Claridge Pressauthor of more than forty books and polemicist present in current debates.
