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Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

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Culture and the Death of God

The idea that the arts will save us is as it were gradually discredited. Culture ceased to be part of the solution and became part of the problem, he says. A rather generous-minded but somewhat hopelessly idealist version of culture had seen culture as the common ground on which we could all meet in our fundamental shared humanity,. That was a rather abstract concept, and you needed to concretize it.

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