Thoughts from a Life: A Man of Letters - Dr. Mark Dooley

There is a strange feature of Roger Scrutons life that not many people appreciate. Of all the writers that impressed him, the one that he admired most was the leftist luminary Jean Paul Sartre. He wrote scathingly of Sartres philosophy, most especially in Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey and Fools, Frauds and Firebrands. However, Sartres ability to steer seamlessly between genres served as a model for Rogers own literary achievements. In our book Conversations with...