# Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton (ˈ; 27 Şubat 1944, Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, İngiltere - 12 Ocak 2020, South Kensington, Londra), İngiliz filozof, yazar ve hayvan hakları aktivistidir.


## Kariyeri.
Estetik ve siyaset felsefesi, özellikle de gelenekçi muhafazakâr görüşlerin ilerlemesi konusunda uzmanlaşmış ve eserler kaleme almıştır.


### Eserleri.
  - "Art And Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of Mind" (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: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture" (1983)
  - "Kant" (1982)
  - "Untimely Tracts" (1985)
  - "Thinkers of the New Left" (1985)
  - "Sexual Desire (book)|Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic" (1986)
  - "Spinoza" (1987)
  - "A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West" (1987)
  - "Conservative Thinkers: Essays from The Salisbury Review" (1988)
  - "Conservative Thoughts: Essays from The Salisbury Review" (1988)
  - "The Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays" (1990)
  - "Conservative Texts: An Anthology" (ed.) (1992)
  - "Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey" (1994)
  - "The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism" (1995)
  - "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy" (1996)  republished as "Philosophy: Principles and Problems" (2005)
  - "The Aesthetics of Music" (1997)
  - "On Hunting" (1998)
  - "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture" (1998)  republished as "Modern Culture" (2005)
  - "Spinoza" (1998)
  - "Animal Rights and Wrongs" (2000)
  - "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)
  - "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)
  - "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)
  - "Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage" (2010)
  - "Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet" (2011)  revised and republished as "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)
  - "Where We Are" (2017)
  - "Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays" (2017)
  - "On Human Nature" (2017)
  - "Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition" (2017)
  - "Fortnight's Anger: a novel" (1981)
  - "Francesca: a novel" (1991)
  - "A Dove Descending and Other Stories" (1991)
  - "Xanthippic Dialogues" (1993)
  - "Perictione in Colophon: Reflections of the Aesthetic Way of Life" (2000)
  - "Notes from Underground" (2014)
  - "The Disappeared" (2015)
  - "Souls in the Twilight: Stories of Loss" (2018).