Sir Roger Scruton

I Drink Therefore I Am

A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

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Produktbeschreibung

Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781472969873
• ISBN-10: 1472969871
• Artikelnr.: 54587114

Autorenporträt

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He was one of the founders of the Salisbury Review, contributed regularly to The Spectator, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and was for many years wine critic for the New Statesman. Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Drugs that are Tolerated and Forbidden 2. Alcohol and its
Effects 3. The Ancients and Religious Rituals 4. Wine, Self Certainty and
Philosophy 5. Paying Bacchus his Due 6. Wine and the Moral Vacuum 7.
American Health Warnings 8. Wine as an Accompaniment to Thought 9. Wine as
Something to Live By