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The Face of God by Roger Scruton (Continuum, £18.99)
According to Roger Scruton, a dolphin doesn't have a face, but a house does. This is a series of face-based meditations on the self, love, religion and art, and a critique of scientific reductionism. Scruton laments the various ways in which we can "deface" each other and the world, through "pornographic culture", environmental degradation, and modern "gadget architecture". Rembrandt, Wagner, Kant and Hegel are the good guys; the bad guys are Dawkinsite new atheists, Quentin Tarantino, and "postmodern people".
Of interest to long-term Scruton-fanciers will be the passing revelation that he now believes anthropogenic global warming is real, and the sympathetic use he makes of Sartre, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, while promising to rescue their proto-thoughts from swampy continental darkness and bring them into the light of "philosophy as argument,...
The Face of God by Roger Scruton (Continuum, £18.99)
According to Roger Scruton, a dolphin doesn't have a face, but a house does. This is a series of face-based meditations on the self, love, religion and art, and a critique of scientific reductionism. Scruton laments the various ways in which we can "deface" each other and the world, through "pornographic culture", environmental degradation, and modern "gadget architecture". Rembrandt, Wagner, Kant and Hegel are the good guys; the bad guys are Dawkinsite new atheists, Quentin Tarantino, and "postmodern people".
Of interest to long-term Scruton-fanciers will be the passing revelation that he now believes anthropogenic global warming is real, and the sympathetic use he makes of Sartre, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, while promising to rescue their proto-thoughts from swampy continental darkness and bring them into the light of "philosophy as argument,...
- 4/20/2012
- by Steven Poole
- The Guardian - Film News
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