7/7/2023 0 Comments Elaine scarry on beauty![]() ![]() Admittedly, an antifoundationalist approach to justice is as likely to be edifying as structurally frightening. But, upon examination, Scarry makes gestures to the metaphysical architects who can't conceive of how to build a theory of justice without philosophical first principles. The book is a blueprint for a stable but revolutionary building that doesn't need a foundation. ![]() The result is On Beauty and Being Just, based on the Tanner Lectures she gave at Yale University in 1998. ![]() We should applaud Elaine Scarry, Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, for making an attempt to build a coherent political philosophy using only the building blocks of aesthetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Abstract Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just. ![]()
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