Quotes
“Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”
I. On Beauty and Being Wrong “How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
I. On Beauty and Being Wrong “When we come upon beautiful things...they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.”
II. On Beauty and Being Fair “It is the intense pain that destroys a person’s self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.”
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World “Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.”
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Elaine Scarry in order
Books by Elaine Scarry in the order they were published, from Dreaming by the Book (1957) to Naming Thy Name (2016).
- 1Dreaming by the Book
Dreaming by the Book1957 - 2The Body in Pain
The Body in Pain1985 - 3Literature and the Body
Literature and the Body1988 - 4Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 19
Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 19901994 - 5Resisting Representation
Resisting Representation1994 - 6Fins-de-siècle
Fins-de-siècle1995 - 7Memory, Brain, and Belief
Memory, Brain, and Belief1999 - 8On Beauty and Being Just
On Beauty and Being Just1999 - 9Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on Authorita
Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian Versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/112003 - 10Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
Rule of Law, Misrule of Men2010 - 11Thinking in an Emergency
Thinking in an Emergency2011 - 12Thermonuclear Monarchy
Thermonuclear Monarchy2013 - 13Naming Thy Name
Naming Thy Name2016