Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged What is culture? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and…
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Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
What is culture? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumors of its death are seriously exaggerated. Why should we preserve it, and how?
In his striking account of music and its role in moral education, he defends the classical tradition as well as the American popular song, and points to the damage done to the psyche by the new forms of pop. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm that sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of "dead white European males."Ranging widely over the arts and philosophy, Scruton defends what Eliot called "the common pursuit of true judgement" against the dismissive attacks of the new academicians. He is robust in defense of traditional architecture and figurative painting; critical