Thinking in an Emergency by Elaine Scarry
Thinking in an Emergency

Elaine Scarry

Thinking in an Emergency

Elaine Scarry

157 pages first pub 2011 (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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