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Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain (1985), On Beauty and Being Just (1999), and Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom (2014). icon

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