Elaine Scarry

Thinking in an Emergency

Buch

For sixty years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the idea of emergency. They have bypassed constitutional provisions concerning presidential succession, the declaration of war, the use of torture, civilian surveillance, and the arrangements for nuclear weapons. In the desire for swift national action, we citizens devalue thinking and ignore ways to check government power, plunging our countries into a precarious state between monarchy and democracy. Drawing on the work of philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists, Elaine Scarry proves decisively that thinking and rapid action… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-07898-5
EAN: 9780393078985
Produktnummer: 7274999
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 144 S.

Über den Autor

Elaine Scarry is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her book The Body in Pain was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.