On Beauty and Being Just
A Philosophy, Writing, Nonfiction book. This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order...
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...
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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 //
Here I am breaking again my rule not to include the books I read for D--. Scarry is a genius. But, more importantly, she must have one hell of a garden! She made my day. "A beautiful thing is not the only thing in the world that can make us feel adjacent; nor is it the only thing in the world that brings a state of acute pleasure. But... I feel like Oscar Wilde said it better in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned.... puzzled as to why this 180s some of the ideas from the masterful *body in pain.* got lost early on with scarry's insistence that beauty is "noticed" rather than the generally accepted idea (at least in my social circles, don't know about y'all) that it's constructed. the book makes all its points upon the bedrock of this alleged given....
