How do I start with Scruton?

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>>9409672
>le tobacco industry shill

You start with Burke.

Throw it in the trash.

>Analytical Philosophy
Sorry senpai, this is /lit/, we only masturbate to gibberish French philosophers who died of AID's.

>>9409848
Scruton isn't analytical

I don't know, OP. I've read Modern Culture and it was breddy gud

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>>9409848
>AID's.

my only contact with this guy was on a documentary called why beauty matters and mostly it was him crying tears of blood because contemporary ''art'' was ugly, he'd point out piss christ or some buildings with graffiti and abandonment as the peak of ugliness, and then he'd go about some old traditionalist painting as being beautiful, and he just seemed like such a whining bitch - why can't there be beauty in those abandoned cold buildings? the old paintings he worshiped looked like shit too. i know he's famous in art criticism so i wonder if i should put any attention to him eventually but that shit really put me off cause he just seemed infatuated with this sort of "we're in the worst time for culture / true art requires ACTUAL ability" thinking

That's too vague, OP. Are you interested in his aesthetics or his politics?

Assuming politics, then The Meaning of Conservatism is probably his central work, and How to be a Conservative is if you're interested in how to apply conservative ideas in your own life. I also found Sexual Desire to be quite interesting, and the ideas he puts forth are part of the conservative framework.

Culture Counts was the first thing I read by him, and that's also worth checking out even if you're not particularly interested in the philosophy of aesthetics, and besides it's not very long.

>>9409968
Also this documentary is worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoybTk6TEX4

>>9409672
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

>>9409672
the trash
guy is a retard who doesn't understand contemporary art
>muh neoclassicism

>>9411173
t. art history undergrad

>>9411258
His documentary about beauty really is garbage though.

>>9411173

>Muh words games

Fuck off critical fag.

>>9411173
>guy is a retard who doesn't understand contemporary art
Because anyone who understands the point Duchamp was trying to make would naturally admire his artistic efforts? Tell us what you mean, please.

>>9411260
That documentary tried to sum up several lectures in like an hour, of course it isn't going to get his point across.

>>9411173

>Dude these paint splotches are really important, you just have to read 80 articles on jstor to understand them!
>Anything the average person could appreciate should be fucking burned, those proles haven't been to Stanford their opinions don't matter