| LC control no. | n 79091909 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6069.C78 |
| Personal name heading | Scruton, Roger |
| Variant(s) | סקרוטון, רוג׳ר. اسكروتن، راجر Scruton, R. V. (Roger Vernon) |
| Associated country | Great Britain United States |
| Located | Brinkworth (England) Virginia |
| Birth date | 1944-02-17 1944-02-27 |
| Death date | 2020-01-12 |
| Place of birth | Buslingthorpe (England) |
| Field of activity | Philosophy Aesthetics Conservatism English fiction Opera |
| Affiliation | Boston University Jesus College (University of Cambridge) University of Buckingham University of Oxford Birkbeck College |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Novelists Philosophers Composers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Art and imagination, 1974. Xanthippic dialogues, c1993: t.p. (Roger Scruton) jkt. (prof. of philosophy at Boston Univ., Mass.; was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; novelist) Xanthippic dialogues, 1998: CIP t.p. (Roger Scruton) data sheet (b. 17 Feb. 1944) An intelligent person's guide to modern culture, 2000: CIP t.p. (Roger Scruton) data sheet (b. 02-27-44) A dictionary of political thought, 3rd ed., 2007: CIP t.p. (Roger Scruton, Visiting professor, Department of Philosophy, Univ. of Buckingham, UK) BL database, 9 Feb. 2010 (hdg.: Scruton, R. V.) The aesthetics of architecture, 2013: title page (Rosger Scruton) cover (Roger Scruton is a visiting professor at Oxford University) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 14, 2020 (in obituary dated Jan. 13, 2020: Roger Scruton; Mr. Scruton was 75 when he died Jan. 12. He had lived for many years on a farm jokingly known as "Scrutopia," in the Wiltshire County town of Brinkworth. Mr. Scruton wrote about morality, politics, aesthetics, architecture, Kantian philosophy and the joys of hunting, in addition to penning two operas and several novels. He was the founding editor of the Salisbury Review, a conservative journal, and for 21 years taught philosophy at Birkbeck, part of the University of London. Roger Vernon Scruton was born in Buslingthorpe, in the eastern English county of Lincolnshire, on Feb. 27, 1944; won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge. He studied philosophy and received a bachelor's degree in 1965, a master's in 1967 and a doctorate in 1972. Mr. Scruton also taught at Boston University and lived for several years in the 2000s at Montpelier, a historic plantation house near Sperryville, Va.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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