On Beauty and Being Just
A Art, Philosophy, Nonfiction book. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Platos Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts...
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. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work...
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- Pages: 134 pages
- ISBN: 9780691089591 / 691089590
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just // This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just // The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Platos Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just //
I enjoyed this book, but I didnt believe in its purpose. I dont think the author did either, for that matter. Im convinced this book is secretly intended to be a beautiful thing, a piece of art, more than it is intended to philosophically argue the nature/virtue of beauty (if Im wrong about that, then its a terrible piece of philosophy... this brief defense of beauty and its relationship to justice was a pleasurable read. i think it lacks in the theoretically sound department, as some of the conclusions she makes, while having a logical set ups, don't seem to be quite founded. however, the writing was true to its topic and the subject brings up many points for meditation.... Thought-provoking examination and defense of Beauty (currently frowned on in much of the art world). Scarry proposes that enjoyment of Beauty aids in the formation of a sense of social justice in this deeply felt polemic. Though there are issues she skirts (the lust for possession which beautiful objects can inspire comes to mind),...
