Elaine Scarry, Author . MIT $14.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-262-01427-4
Harvard professor of aesthetics Scarry (The Body in Pain
) develops a forceful condemnation of Bush-era government excesses while articulating a broad philosophy of governance and consent. Scarry makes a provocative case against President Bush and...
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Elaine Scarry, Author Princeton University Press $32.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-691-04875-8
Best known for her 1985 study of torture and physical pain, The Body in Pain, and for her much-publicized contention, first expressed in the New York Review of Books, that electromagnetic interference caused the crash of TWA Flight 800, Harvard...
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Elaine Scarry, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-14398-5
Best known for her 1985 study of torture and physical pain, The Body in Pain, and for her much-publicized contention, first expressed in the New York Review of Books, that electromagnetic interference caused the crash of TWA Flight 800, Harvard...
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Elaine Scarry. Norton, $35 (640p) ISBN 978-0-393-08008-7
Scarry (The Body in Pain) takes a long, hard look at America’s nuclear arsenal and finds its existence to be completely incompatible with democracy. She shows how “out-of-ratio weapons”—those that allow a single person or small number of people to...
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Elaine Scarry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-27993-6
Scarry (The Body in Pain) poses a surprising answer to a question that has puzzled readers of Shakespeare’s sonnets for 400 years: the “lovely boy” of the poems is Henry Constable, fellow poet, diplomat, and, after his conversion to Catholicism in...
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