Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popco

"Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Sc

What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the

Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigratio

We live, allegedly, in a postmodern age in which we have cast aside the narrative fantasies of the pre-modern era. If postmodernism represents the final abandon