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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (4 Jul 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0715636235
ISBN-13: 978-0715636237
Product Dimensions: 17 x 12.2 x 1.2 cm
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On Beauty and Being Just describes, evokes and manifests the loving attention that beautiful objects provoke. . . . [It] is fresh, eccentric and uncompromising. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"'Thank you to Elaine Scarry for her wonderful essay On Beauty and Being Just, from which I borrowed a title, a chapter heading and a good deal of inspiration' Zadie Smith, On Beauty 'With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book' J. M. Coetzee"

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