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Average rating: 3.93 · 724 ratings · 97 reviews · 14 distinct works
The Body in Pain: The Makin...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
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On Beauty and Being Just
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 291 ratings — 4 editions
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Dreaming by the Book
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Thinking in an Emergency
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Resisting Representation
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions
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Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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2.33 of 5 stars 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003
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Literature and the Body: Es...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 2 editions
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Thermonuclear Monarchy: Cho...
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Fins de Sicle: English Poet...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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“Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.”
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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.”
― Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
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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
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