diversity_3 Social Order
Organization of society
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"Europe is characterized by what I shall call its eccentricity. I mean by this that Europe does not have its center in itself. Its source and its norm lie elsewhere, before it, and outside it."
menu_book Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization
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menu_book Reflections on the Revolution in France
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England and the Need for Nations
Scruton's influential pamphlet arguing that the nation-state is the indispensable vessel of liberal democratic governance, and coining the term 'oi...
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Brague's foundational work arguing that European culture is fundamentally "eccentric", it has always received its cultural substance from outside i...
Read MoreLaw, Legislation and Liberty
A three-volume work exploring the relationship between law, individual liberty, and social order in free societies
Read MoreReflections on the Revolution in France
Burke's furious, prescient response to the French Revolution, arguing that society is a contract between generations, that abstract rights divorced...
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