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This is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years. >

En 2041, les problèmes économiques incessants interrompent les communications entre la Terre et la petite colonie scientifique établie sur Mars. L'Antarctique avait été le continent de la science, Mars devient une planète réservée à la science : Mars blanche. Naufragés de l'espace, les pionniers isolés, essaient de repenser le monde et le destin de l'humanité, de réellement créer un monde meilleur. Une planète sans exploitation, sans armes, sans pollution, peuplée d'hommes libres. Tandis que le débat sur l'utopie progresse, la question de l'existence d'une forme de vie martienne totalement inconnue prend un tour dramatique. Des caractères forts se révèlent à la lumière des événements et des débats. Avec humour, dérision et tendresse, Brian Aldiss amène le lecteur à prendre parti. Vrai grand roman de SF humaniste, Mars blanche est un exemple exceptionnel de collaboration entre un grand écrivain, Brian Aldiss, et un éminent mathématicien et scientifique, Roger Penrose.

In this compact volume readers just beginning Proust's master work and those who are already enriched by it will become aware of a significance not unkown but only forgotten"--the basic structure of Proust's enormous novel. The overall meaning of Proust's book lies in his three ways of looking at the world--cinematographic, montage, and stereoscopic--and their varying effects on the emotions and the intellect. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A revised edition of the Notting Hill Editions essay collection by the late Sir Roger Scruton with a new introduction by Douglas Murray. Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. In this selection, covering subjects from art and architecture to politics and nature conservation, Scruton challenges popular opinion on key aspects of our culture: What can we do to protect Western values against Islamist extremism? How can we nurture real friendship through social media? Why is the nation-state worth preserving? How should we achieve a timely death against the advances of modern medicine? This provocative collection seeks to answer the most pressing problems of our age. In his introduction, the bestselling author and commentator Douglas Murray writes of what it cost Scruton to express views considered unpalatable, and of the importance of these ideas after Scruton’s death.