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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In this provocative and passionately argued book Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists whether of the Left or of the Right. The time has come to replace irrational exuberance with a humane pessimism. Scruton demonstrates that the tragedies and disasters of European history have been consequences of false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. Rejecting these fallacies Scruton mounts a robust defence of both civil society and freedom. He shows that the true legacy of European civilisation is not the false idealisms that have almost destroyed it – Nazism fascism and com- munism – but the culture of forgiveness and irony which today we must now protect from those whom it offends. The Uses of Pessimism is a compelling plea for reason and responsibility written at a time of profound social and political change.