On beauty and being just
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On beauty and being just
Duckworth Overlook, 2011
- : pbk
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"This impression 2011. This edition first published in 2006. First published in the UK in 2000 by Duckworth Overlook"--T.p. verso
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Various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just" Elaine Scarry challenges such theories, offering not only a passionate defence of beauty from the political arguments against it, but also that beauty does indeed have a positive effect on life. Rather than serving the privileged it presses all of us towards a greater concern for justice.
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