Fools, Frauds and Firebrands by Roger Scruton

Author:Roger Scruton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781408187357
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-06-20T12:44:38+00:00

1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s justification of the Soviet show-trials and prison camps was published as Humanism and Terror in 1946.

2 György Lukács, Record of a Life, ed. Istvan Eörsi, tr. R. Livingstone, London, 1983, p. 60.

3 Ibid., p. 63.

4 Ibid., p. 76.

5 History and Class Consciousness, tr. R. Livingstone, London, 1971, p. 264.

6 See Frank Borkenau, World Communism, New York, 1962, pp. 172–3.

7 History and Class Consciousness, op. cit., p. 190.

8 György Lukács, Essays on Realism, ed. R. Livingstone, tr. D. Fernbach, London, 1980, p. 133.

9 Karl Marx, Capital, Standard edition, Moscow, 1962–6, vol. 1, p. 45.

10 Ibid.

11 F. Engels, Anti-Dühring and Dialectics of Nature. Alain Besançon has drawn attention to the fun that Flaubert might have had at the expense of Bouvard and Pécuchet, had his characters discovered these works: The Intellectual Origins of Leninism, tr. Sarah Matthews, Oxford, 1989, p. 49.

12 Essays on Realism, op. cit., p. 127.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 New Left Review (1971), reprinted in Record of a Life, op. cit., p. 174.

16 Tactics and Ethics: Political Essays, 1919–29, New York, 1975, p. 25.

17 Ibid., p. 30.

18 Capital, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 766.

19 Ibid., vol. III, pp. 384–5.

20 History and Class Consciousness, op. cit., p. 87.

21 Ibid., p. 89.

22 Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, 1841, tr. Marian Evans, London, 1854.

23 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, ed. and tr. Mary Gregor, Cambridge, CUP, 1998, pp. 42–3.

24 The discussion was effectively begun by Peter L. Berger, Stanley Pullberg and Ben Brewster in New Left Review 35 (January–February 1966).

25 Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, London, 1956, p. 127. For a critique of the rhetoric of ‘objectification’ and ‘alienation’, and a useful reminder of the Hegelian thesis that man can exist and be happy only if he does release himself into the world and become an object of his own perception and striving, see Helmut Plessner, ‘De Homine Abscondito’, in Social Research 36 (4) (1969).

26 History and Class Consciousness, op. cit., p. 171.

27 Ibid., p. 164.

28 Ibid., p. 72.

29 Ibid., p. 197, (Lukács’s italics).

30 Tactics and Ethics, op. cit., p. 36.

31 History and Class Consciousness, p. 74 (Lukács’s italics).

32 See Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, Oxford, 1978, vol. 3, p. 279.

33 György Lukács, The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, tr. J. and N. Mander, London, 1963, p. 63.

34 Essays on Realism, op. cit., p. 34.

35 The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, op. cit., p. 109.

36 Ibid., p. 14.

37 Essays on Realism, op. cit., p. 101.

38 Ibid., p. 121.

39 ‘Peter Simple’s diary’, written by the late Michael Wharton, appeared pseudonymously in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph during the 1980s and 1990s and was devoted to satirizing the intellectual and political fashions of the day.

40 Record of a Life, op. cit., p. 172.

41 György Lukács, Hegel’s False and His Genuine Ontology, tr. D. Fernbach, London, 1978, p. 59.

42 Max Horkheimer, Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft, Frankfurt, 1967, originally published in English translation as Eclipse of Reason, New York, 1947, p. 20.

43 Herbert Marcuse, ‘Repressive Tolerance’, in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance, London, 1969, pp.

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