Title: angelo alright
Product review: I read this book for the first time when I had been studying philosphy for about six months. at the time I liked it, with my limited knowledge of the subject. rereading it now Im not so sure. Ok, Scruton writes good, and has a lot of points to make, and I agree on many of them. What annoys me greatly, and not just about Scruton, but also with very many of the anglo-american philosophers are their understanding of so-called continental philosophy. His short account of Foucault in this book shows almost no understanding at all of Foucaults ideas. Its plain dumb, like many other "anglo-american" readings of "continental" philosophy. spare me the self-referentially inconsistent arguments...sorry the outburst but its way off the point that Foucault, Derrida and others are trying to make.To get back to the book, I still think its ok in many ways, but it needs to be read along with another book as counterpoint.
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