Kurt Andersen and his guest, Harvard philosophy professor Elaine Scarry, look at different kinds of beauty.
Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty and Being Just. A professor of aesthetics at Harvard University, her interests are wide-ranging; she is also the author of The Body in Pain, Dreaming By the Book, and a forthcoming work on war and the social contract. Among her articles is a detailed study of the causes of the fall of TWA Flight 800.
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