The Uses of Pessimism
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The Uses of Pessimism and The Danger of False Hope
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781848872011
Weight: 0.35 kg
Pages: 239 pp
Year: 2012
Price: RM73
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.