Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2012
Editura: Atlantic Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 240
ISBN: 9781848872011
Dimensiuni: l: 12.5cm | H: 19cm
Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil society and freedom. He shows that the true legacy of European civilisation is not the false idealisms that have almost destroyed it - in the shapes of Nazism, fascism and communism - but the culture of forgiveness and irony which we must now protect from those whom it offends. The Uses of Pessimism is a passionate plea for reason and responsibility, written at a time of profound change.