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028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0684 _d: 31/03/2023
082			_a111.85 SCA
100			_aScarry, Elaine.
245			_aOn beauty and being just _c/ Elaine Scarry.
260			_a, Princeton, N.J. _b: Princeton University Press _c, ©1999.
300			_a134 pages _b: illustrations _c ; 20 cm.
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505			_aOn beauty and being wrong On beauty and being fair
520			_aIn 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."
650			_a Aesthetics
650			_aEthik
650			_aSchoonheid
650			_aÄsthetik
700			_aElaine Scarry
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