Roger Scruton bibliography

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This a list of the published works of English philosopher Roger Scruton.

Books

Nonfiction

• Art And Imagination (1974).
• The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979).
• The Meaning of Conservatism (1980).
• The Politics of Culture and Other Essays (1981).
• A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1982).
• A Dictionary of Political Thought (1982).
• The Aesthetic Understanding (1983).
• Kant (1983).
• Untimely Tracts (1985).
• Thinkers of the New Left (1985).
• Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic (1986).
• Spinoza (1987).
• A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West (1987).
• The Philosopher on Dover Beach and Other Essays (1989).
• Conservative Texts (1992).
• Modern Philosophy (1994).
• The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism (1995).
• Animal Rights and Wrongs (1996).
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy (1996); republished in 2005 as Philosophy: Principles and Problems.
• The Aesthetics of Music (1997).
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998).
• On Hunting (1998).
• Spinoza (1998).
• England: An Elegy (2001).
• The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat (2002).
• Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (2004).
• News From Somewhere: On Settling (2004).
• The Need for Nations (2004).
• Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005).
• Animal Rights and Wrongs (2006).
• A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006).
• Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Need to Defend the Nation State (2006).
• Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (2007).
• Beauty (2009).
• I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine (2009).
• Understanding Music (2009).
• The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (2010).
• How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012).
• The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (2012).
• Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (2012).
• The Soul of the World (2014).
• How to Be a Conservative (2014)
• Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015)

Fiction

• Fortnight's Anger: a novel (1981).
• Francesca: a novel (1991).
• A Dove Descending and Other Stories (1991).
• Xanthippic Dialogues (1993).
• Perictione in Colophon (2000).
• Notes from Underground (2014)
• The Disappeared (2015)

Opera

• The Minister (1994).
• Violet (2005).

Television

• Why Beauty Matters (BBC 2009).

External links

• The Roger Scruton Bibliography, compiled by Christopher Morrissey, Associate Professor of Latin and Philosophy at Redeemer Pacific College, Canada.