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The Uses of Pessimism

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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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23 October 2024
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230 p.
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