It is the text of a lecture delivered at Masaryk University, Brno, Moravia, on the occasion of Roger Scruton’s sixtieth birthday, in 2004. Scruton remembers the most important moments of his intellectual life and talks about his conservative instinct that was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968 and his sickness for the literature that inspired the French youth. He speaks of his direct knowledge of the communist regime during his stay in Czechoslovakia, in 1979, and of his clandestine meetings with dissident intellectuals who were fighting for freedom, putting into practice the principles of their conservative culture, imbued with the spirit of place and community.
È un impasto di sagacia intellettuale, saggezza nata dall’esperienza della vitae ironia british impressa nel suo codice genetico quello che sostiene il racconto autobiograco di Roger Scruton: dai suoi studi universitari nel campo dellalosoa e della letteratura alla sua decisione di diventare un pensatore politico d’orientamento conservatore; dai suoi incontri con i dissidenti dell’Est europeo alla sua originale riscoperta dellalealtà patriottica e del valore della cultura nazionale intese come fondamento di qualunque comunità politica organizzata.Un percorso intellettuale nel segno della libertà e del riuto delle convenzioni.
Roger Scruton, "Breve storia di un conservatore al servizio della nazione"
PUPO, Spartaco
2014-01-01
Abstract
It is the text of a lecture delivered at Masaryk University, Brno, Moravia, on the occasion of Roger Scruton’s sixtieth birthday, in 2004. Scruton remembers the most important moments of his intellectual life and talks about his conservative instinct that was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968 and his sickness for the literature that inspired the French youth. He speaks of his direct knowledge of the communist regime during his stay in Czechoslovakia, in 1979, and of his clandestine meetings with dissident intellectuals who were fighting for freedom, putting into practice the principles of their conservative culture, imbued with the spirit of place and community.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.