The Politics of Culture: And Other Essays

Brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources, arranging themthematically. The book has four sections: Language and Art, Writers in Context, Architecture, and Culture and Anarchy. Though the essays are diverse, certain themes are developed in particular and then in general ways, and there are several important essays on writers and critics that contribute to the reappraisal of their work B among them Dante, Andre Breton, Graham Greene, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, Jacques Lacan, and Yukio Mishima. AThe political spirit is present in all of the papers, writes Scruton, Abut it is a spirit that concerns itself with culture, and with the institutions and practices through which culture is upheld.