Thursday, October 15, 2015
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)
Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium
Event Type
Lecture
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Department
Government
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The Alexander Hamilton Lecture in Constitutional Studies presents Roger Scruton.
Roger Scruton is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy
Center in Washington and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis. In 2010 he
gave the Gifford Lectures in St Andrews under the title of 'The Face of God'.
The lectures have been collected and published under the title The Face of God
(Continuum, 2012), in 2011 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Divinity School
at the University of Cambridge.
Roger is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He
has specialized in aesthetics with particular attention to music and
architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from
the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful
polemicist. He has written widely in the
press on political and cultural issues. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a fellow of the British Academy. Among his other most recent
books are Our Church: A Personal History
of the Church of England (Atlantic, 2012), Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2009); The Uses of Pessimism (Atlantic Books, 2010), and Green Philosophy (Atlantic, 2012;
published in the United States as How to
Think Seriously About the Planet).
Roger Scruton's prolific writing has led to the publication
of many books in the last decade or so including England: An Elegy (Continuum, Books, 2000), an attempt to give
identity to the idea of England and a tribute to its values and institutions; Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in
Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde' (OUP, 2003), an analysis of the musical and
spiritual meaning of Wagner's work; News
from Somewhere: On Settling (Continuum, 2003), an evocative account of the
author's attempt to put down roots in rural Wiltshire; A Political Philosophy (Continuum, 2006), a thoughtful response to
the development and decline of western civilization, The West and the Rest (ISI, 2001), an analysis of the values held
by the 'West' and how they are distinct from those held by other cultures. Gentle Regrets (Continuum, 2006) and On Hunting (Random House, 1998) are two
autobiographical works. A third edition of A
Dictionary of Political Thought was published by Palgrave Macmillan in
2007; it provides a concise and comprehensive collection of definitions for
political thought and processes.