Roger Scruton bibliography: Difference between revisions

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

Books

Non-fiction

• 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 (1981)
• 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 (1986) republished as Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction (2002)
• A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West (1987)
• The Philosopher on Dover Beach and Other Essays (1989)
• Conservative Texts (1992)
• Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey (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)
• 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 (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• News from Somewhere: On Settling (2004)
• The Need for Nations (2004)
• Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (Continuum, 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 (Encounter Books, 2007)
• Dictionary of Political Thought (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)
• Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011) ISBN 9780199229758
• Green Philosophy (2011)
• The Roger Scruton Reader (2011)
• 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)
• The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung (2016)
• Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016)
• Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays (2016)
• On Human Nature (2017)
• Conservatism: Ideas in Profile (2017)
• The State of Britain Now (2017)
• Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (2018)
• Music as an Art (2018)
• Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption (Penguin, 2020) ISBN 9780857423498
• Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s columns, commentaries and criticism (2022)

Fiction

Articles

Opera

• The Minister (1994)
• Violet (2005)

Television

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