Roger Scruton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roger Scruton

English philosopher

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1944

Place of Birth: Buslingthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, composer, politician, political scientist, university teacher, journalist, philosopher, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (; born 27 February 1944) is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.Editor from 1982 to 2001 of The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, Scruton has written over 50 books on philosophy, art, music, politics, literature, culture, sexuality, and religion; he has also written novels and two operas.
His most notable publications include The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), Sexual Desire (1986), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), and How to Be a Conservative (2014).
He has been a regular contributor to the popular media, including The Times, The Spectator, and the New Statesman. Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France.
From 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, after which he held several part-time academic positions, including in the United States.
In the 1980s he helped to establish underground academic networks in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, for which he was awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit (First Class) by President Václav Havel in 1998.
Scruton was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for "services to philosophy, teaching and public education".