| #87011 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2001-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.35 x.46 x4.52l,.32 | File Name: 0691089590 | 144 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant strategy and insights|By jerrybednar|I love this book. The author does not get bogged down in trying to define beauty, rather she simply asks that we acknowledge that it exists, and ponders what happens in front of beauty. It's a brilliant move, and allows the book to really take off. Beautifully written too.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.|From Publishers Weekly|Best known for her 1985 study of torture and physical pain, The Body in Pain, and for her much-publicized contention, first expressed in the New York of Books, that electromagnetic interference caused the crash of TWA Flight 800, Harvar
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Takin...
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