Lebenswelt roughly translates into “life world” in German. In the work Scruton offers a vigorous defense, and revision, of the philosophical concept of Lebenswelt. The Soul of the World is a dense, yet concise (and precise), short philosophical treatise that grew out of his Stanton Lectures at the University of Cambridge in 2011. In 2014 he published what he regarded, and wants, to be his legacy treatise: The Soul of the World. A skeptic toward market fundamentalism, a critic of the faux virtue and “care” pretentiously claimed in socialism, he is a man with few establishment friends as he robs left-liberals (social liberals) and right-liberals (erroneously called “conservatives”) and leftists the wrong way. Roger Scruton is one of the most eminent English-speaking philosophers a scholar in aesthetics, political philosophy, Spinoza, and Kant (and subsequently Kantianism and post-Kantianism), he is a well-known conservative in the proper sense and use of the term.
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