Has anybody read this? Has anybody read or studied under Scarry? I'm quite interested in her first work, and I'd love to hear some opinions.
>>7886464
I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia, but their article doesn't present her as someone I'd like to study under.
>>7886808
Why is that?
>>7886895
>human pain
>human values
>nuclear weapons
>plane crashes
>Elaine scarry is an American essayist and professor of English and American literature and language
she's sounds like a dilettante, a less accomplished female version of Malcolm Gladwell
>>7887056
>a less accomplished female version of Malcolm Gladwell
Well I'd hesitate to make the comparison considering Gladwell is mocked by staticians, he's a journalist, and Steven Pinker described him as being "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning," while accusing him of "cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies"
Yikes.
Scary, meanwhile, is a professor at Harvard, head of the aesthetic department, and her book, Body in Pain, won the Truman Capote award for Literary Criticism. She's also respected by academics.
>>7887098
Read her stuff on TWA 800. She's a wackjob conspiracy theorist.
>>7887139
Yeah, but she can still be a great theorist
>>7887338
sure anon
Why not actually post her ideas and we can debts them.
I agree with her that pain is very central to the human experience, and a great many of our systems and practices are either attempting to reduce it, or enhance it.
The Body In Pain is a great read
