It was an emergent concept in post-Kantian idealist and German phenomenological philosophy in Edmund Husserl through Martin Heidegger. Lebenswelt roughly translates into “life world” in German. In the work Scruton offers a vigorous defense, and revision, of the philosophical concept of Lebenswelt. The Soul of the World is a dense, yet concise (and precise), short philosophical treatise (only 198 pages in the Princeton Press edition). In 2014 he published what he regarded to be his legacy treatise: The Soul of the World, which was an integration of Stanton Lectures he was invited to give at Cambridge in 2011. A skeptic toward market fundamentalism, a critic of the faux virtue and “care” pretentiously claimed in socialism, he is a man with few establishment friends as he robs left-liberals (social liberals) and right-liberals (erroneously called “conservatives”) and leftists the wrong way. Roger Scruton is one of the most eminent English-speaking philosophers a scholar in aesthetics, political philosophy, Spinoza, and Kant (and subsequently Kantianism and post-Kantianism), he is a well-known conservative in the proper sense and use of the term.
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