> Not to return to the Judith Butler inferno of many months ago, but I
> certainly endorse this criticism, found in this piece: "John Raulston
> Saul could not be described as conservative, but like Scruton, he has
> problems with Derrida, arguing that he is obscure, and therefore likely
> to castrate the public imagination. Clarity is always the method of
> those who serve the public imagination, he says, claiming that obscure
> writers serve what he calls 'established power'."
Scruton is a good old-fashioned asshole. He can be a good philosopher, he's written some good books on the history of philosophy but his political stuff and his political philosophy are god-awful. His attempt to derive property rights out of Hegel stinks to the heavens. In his Thinkers of the New Left he argues that Gramsci was a fascist. Does the fact that Gramsci died after serving many years in a Fascist prison have anything to do with....anything?
sam p