Philosopher Roger Scruton. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
In yesterday's Sunday Times, Bryan Appleyard wrote a fascinating piece on philosopher Roger Scruton and his latest robust defence of western art and its cannons, Culture Counts. "When," writes Scruton, "has any eastern culture paid to western culture the kind of tribute that Benjamin Britten paid in Curlew River, to the culture of Japan, or Rudyard Kipling in Kim, to the culture of India." In other words, the west's high art isn't just superior to that of other cultures, it's more multicultural too. Scruton is a brilliant and provocative thinker and his website is a great introduction to his thoughts on painting, literature, wine, food, politics and countless other subjects.
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