Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Conservative Critique of Culture
I'm all in favor of new initiatives, especially when institutions are failing to produce what we are looking at them to produce. On the question of whether there can be a conservative critique of culture, I would say this: if there were such a thing, it wouldn't have the form that cultural theory has tended to have. Trouble with the right is that they have a lot of theories but don't like calling them theories because they are so deeply invested in intuition and feeling.
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