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Elaine Scarry (born 30 June 1946) is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language. She is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law. She was formerly Professor of English at The University of Pennsylvania. ==Life== She is the author of ''The Body in Pain'' which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain.〔Pollock, Della. ''Telling Bodies, Performing Birth''. 1999: Columbia University Press. p. 120.〕 She argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world. In 1998, she delivered the essay 'On Beauty and Being Just', for the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, an inquiry into the disparagement of beauty in Western Civilization in the 20th Century. Her 1999 study, ''Dreaming by the Book'' won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In 2014, she published a book about nuclear weapons, ''Thermonuclear monarchy'', in which (she) 'explores the baleful political consequences of limiting the control of nuclear weapons to a select few, and the authority to launch them to even fewer — in the case of the United States, to the president alone in what amounts to his monarchical power.’〔Richard Rhodes, ''NY Times'', March 2014, 21: ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elaine Scarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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