On Beauty and Being Just and changing friendships

and changing friendships

she's embarrassed

Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free

their wife and mother

On Beauty and Being Just and changing friendshipsHave we become beauty blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for