| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 117 pages) |
| Series |
Brief encounters |
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Brief encounters (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Preface -- What is culture? -- Leisure, cult, and culture -- Knowledge and feeling -- The uses of criticism -- Teaching culture -- Culture wars -- Rays of hope |
| Summary |
What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, the 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 called "the common pursuit of true judgment" against the dismissive attacks of the new academicia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity and culture.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Christianity and culture
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Cultuur.
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Cultuurfilosofie.
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Cultuurkritiek.
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Geloof.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781594032783 |
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1594032785 |
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128248771X |
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9781282487710 |
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9786612487712 |
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6612487712 |
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