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Politics of Culture and Other Essays, The
Scruton, Roger
This work brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources, arranging them thematically. The book has four sections: Language and Art, Writers in Context, Architecture, and Culture and Anarchy. Though the essays are diverse, certain themes are developed in particular and then in general ways, and there are several important essays on writers and critics, that contribute to the reappraisal of their work – among them Dante, Andre Breton, Graham Greene, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, Jacques Lacan, and Yukio Mishima.
Table of Contents
Preface
Language and Art
The Science of Language
Sense and Sincerity
The Impossible Semiotics
Deconstruction and Criticism
The English Connection: Williams, Hoggart and Eagleton
Art, Language and Nelson Goodman
Imagination
Through fiction to Reality
Pseudo-painting
The Semiology of Music
Philosophy and Literature
Writers in Context
Graham Greene
James Joyce
Silvia Plath
André Brenton and Surrealism
The Japanese Experience
The Significance of Dante
Architecture
Alberti and the Art of the Appropriate
Adrian Stokes
Buckminster Fuller
Morality and Architecture
Marxism in Architecture
Architecture of the Horizontal
Culture and Anarchy
Radical Therapy
A Note on Foucault
Jacques Lacan
The Ideology of the Market
The Ideology of Human Rights
Poetry and Poetics
Humane Education
The Politics of Culture
Index