Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton was a British philosopher of politics and aesthetics. He authored more than fifty books on culture, philosophy, and religion, including A Dictionary of Political Thought and How to Be a Conservative. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1972 and pursued his interest in the philosophy of music. He was a Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute and former course director of the M.A. in philosophy at the University of Buckingham.