Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and a visiting professor at Oxford University. Scruton died in January 2020.

• Introduction1 What is Left?2 Resentment in Britain: Hobsbawm and Thompson3 Disdain in America: Galbraith and Dworkin4 Liberation in France: Sartre and Foucault5 Tedium in Germany: Downhill to Habermas6 Nonsense in Paris: Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze7 Culture Wars Worldwide: The New Left from Gramsci to Said8 The Kraken Wakes: Badiou and Žižek9 What is Right?Index of namesIndex of subjects

Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-twentieth century ... complex and erudite.