# Roger Scruton bibliography

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)
* 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 (2020)
* Against the Tide: The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism (2022)

### 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)
* Souls in the Twilight (2018)

## Articles

* Scruton, Roger (4 January 2014). "The right way : we need conservatism now more than ever". The Spectator. 324 (9671): 14.
* Scruton, Roger (2014). "Why I became a conservative". The New Criterion. 21 (6): 4.

## Opera

* The Minister (1994)
* Violet (2005)

## Television

* Why Beauty Matters (BBC 2009).