Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach An Intellectual Biography
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Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, author and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology. He has been a columnist for both the Sunday Independent and the Irish Daily Mail, and is currently a Contributing Editor to The European Conservative magazine. His many books include The Roger Scruton Reader, Why Be a Catholic?, Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming, and Conversations with Roger Scruton, all published by Bloomsbury. In 2022, he edited and published Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism. He is Sir Roger Scruton's literary executor.<b>With clarity and grace, Mark Dooley's<i> </i>book fully captures the philosophical achievement of the late Roger Scruton.</b> In its pages, Scruton's evocative account of the "life-world" truly comes alive. The world as Scruton describes it, the real world, the one available to the incarnate persons that we are, is one where free and responsible persons are accountable to each other, where sacred or holy things lift us out of our mundane selves, where beauty is real and not invented, and where politics is marked by law, loyalty, and settlement. As Dooley admirably shows, Scruton's urbane and humane thought dares to say "Yes" to our civilized inheritance, and to look up to what endures. Dooley's account of Scruton's life and thought remains a shining achievement, and one very unlikely to be surpassed in the coming years.
Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor Emeritus at Assumption University, and author of Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton (2022)
In this short, lucid study of Scruton's thought ... [Mark Dooley] mounts <b>a powerful defence of an important thinker.</b> Dooley covers all aspects of Scruton's thought, from sex and art to religion, politics and the defence of the nation.
Alex Moffatt, Irish Mail on Sunday
Dooley's book aims to show that Scruton's ideas are proving more and more true to our current times. <b>This is an important and challenging re-appraisal of an important philosopher.</b>
Stav Sherez, Catholic Herald
Sets out eloquently Roger [Scruton's] positions on politics and art - and explains why there was no one I ever commissioned to write whose articles who provoked more rage.
Sir Peter Stothard, Editor, Times Literary Supplement
Beautifully written, clear, concise, restrained, <i>Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach </i>is a masterpiece of concise exposition, a model of clarification and, above all, a pleasure to read. For anyone who wants a comprehensive overview of Scruton's work, Dooley's book is indispensable. There is no other work of this kind on the market. Short of reading all of Scruton's writings yourself, there can be no better way to gain a clear understanding of this most significant of contemporary philosophers.
Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society
Dooley makes a strong case for taking [Scruton] seriously and puts to rest the absurd and, thankfully, now less fashionable view that he is the 'unthinking man's thinking man'.
The Journal of Philosophy
Dooley's erudite exposition of Scruton's thought is not only intellectually provoking but genuinely stimulating.
- Serge Grigoriev, Ithaca College, USA, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 19