Untimely Tracts.

Schutzumschlag sehr leicht berieben, sonst ein sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / dust jacket very lightly soiled, otherwise a clean copy with no markings. - Roger Scruton�s articles in The Times have established his reputation as one of the ablest controversialists of his generation. Succinctly argued, vividly expressed, and unfailingly reactionary in tone, these articles have scandalised the intellectual establishment and brought comfort to those of old- fashioned views. Ranging from the eating of fish to the maintenance of motorcycles, from nuclear disarmament to the Anglican liturgy, from the music of Pfitzner to the foundations of social thought, these frank expressions of unfashionable prejudice will give food for thought both to those who agree with them and to those who do not. Whatever your views, you will recognise here a useful identification of the issues which now confront us, and a challenge to the world in which we live. Contents Preface The Virtue of Irrelevance Against Architecture The Politics of Language Who will Guard our Guardians? Male Domination The French Conquest of Bayreuth The Supreme Punishment On the Conservation of Labour The Class Straggle The Fate of Peterhouse Death and Destiny Who is a Fascist? The Myth of Authenticity Our Allies in the Warsaw Pact The Life of the Market A Visit to Laputa The Forward Path of Socialism Reform in South Africa In Praise of Privilege Limiting the Commons The Elgin Marbles In Praise of Bourgeois Art The Hereditary Principle In Praise of Bourgeois Music Standards in Schools In Defence of Bourgeois Man On Representative Democracy Waging War on the Individual On White Burgundy An Invitation to the Dance Impossible Partners On Judicial Independence Intolerance and Paedophilia Life in the Country The Pestilence of Pulpit Politics From the House of the Dead The Myth of the Working Class The Folly of Local Government Bourgeois Man on the March Peace and Pfitzner In Search of a Crown Law and Force The Turks of Cyprus Left, Right and Wrong Fantasy and Imagination The Education of the Judge Against Economics Peace Studies A Feast of Fibich In Black and White On British Philosophy Heath's Confused Conservatism The Stately and the State-controlled Race, Class and Politics The Right Divine to Govern Wrong In Praise of Money The Morality of Commerce Utopia and Conservation The Genesis of Anti-Semitism The Fate of the Liturgy A Hominist Homily C. H. Sisson: An Appreciation The Honeyford Case The Palumbo Case The Abuse of Charity The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The North London Polytechnic Representation and Election The Power of the Press The European Parliament In Praise of Hayek On the Eating of Fish On the Teaching of Teachers The New Class The Triumph of Nothingness On the Meaning of Holidays The Open University and the Closed Mind On Roads and Railways W. Curtis Green, Architect In Search of a Loyal Opposition On Rights and Duties The Belgrano Affair The President's Palace The War of Religion King Arthur's Crime The Eleventh Hour The New Racism In Memory of Iran On Sentimentality The Crusade against Monetarism A Martyr to Unhappiness Honour and Arrogance Two Cheers for the CIA Temples of Anxiety Obligations of the Flesh Opposing Marx Testimony to a Miracle The Representation of Minorities De Anima What do we Stand For? No Middle Road A Voice from Old Vienna In Loco Parentis In Praise of Common Law The End of Education On Charter 77 The Lesson of Oman The Lesson of Lebanon The Plague of Sociology Nelson's Monument Capitalist Equality Our Empire in America In Memoriam Jaroslav Seifert The Dismal Pseudo-science Freud and Fraud Rights and Wrongs Sense and Censorship Charity and Politics L'invitation au voyage Bentham and Birkbeck Index of Names Subject Index. ISBN 9780333438626