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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Uses of Pessimism
• Author: Roger Scruton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781848872011
• ISBN: 1848872011
• ID: 04358961
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Weight: 218 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 130 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2012

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