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  • Thermonuclear Monarchy
    Elaine Scarry
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  • Thinking in an Emergency
    Elaine Scarry
    In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: equality of survival. She reveals how regular citizens can reclaim the power to protect one another and our democratic principles. Government leaders sometimes argue that the need for swift national action means there is no time ...
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    16,83 €

  • Who Defended The Country?
    Elaine Scarry
    ’Elaine Scarry’s consistently radical way of posing essential questions redirects inquiry in the most valuable ways, a tribute to a disciplined and erudite imagination put almost exclusively at the service of democratic citizenship in American society.’-Richard FalkThrough a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, responses, and reported actions of passe...
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    15,54 €

  • Dreaming by the Book
    Elaine Scarry
    Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in...
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    50,69 €

  • Resisting Representation
    Elaine Scarry
    Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry celebrates language as she deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius through the 19th-century novel to 20th-century advertising. ...
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    142,95 €