Thinking in an Emergency by Elaine Scarry
Thinking in an Emergency

Elaine Scarry

Thinking in an Emergency

Elaine Scarry

157 pages 2011

3 editions

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Author of the landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry offers a stunning and original analysis of the “claim of emergency.”For sixty years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the...

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