On beauty and being just (Record no. 60135)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691089591
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
Bill Number : ZBD0684
Bill Date : 31/03/2023
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 111.85 SCA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Scarry, Elaine.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title On beauty and being just
Statement of responsibility, etc / Elaine Scarry.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Princeton, N.J.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , ©1999.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 134 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 20 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1460
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note On beauty and being wrong<br/>On beauty and being fair
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms." "Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness."
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aesthetics
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethik
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Schoonheid
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ästhetik
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Elaine Scarry
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 06/04/2023 Zafaa Books 1460.00 4 4 111.85 SCA 29209 05/05/2026 04/05/2026 06/04/2023 Books
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