Description: For 60 years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the idea of emergency. Here, the author of the landmark study "The Body in Pain" offers a stunning and original analysis of the claim of emergency.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: Written with passion from a deeply humanitarian standpoint . . . a mind-blowing canter around some difficult topics conflict, democracy and nuclear war.. . . I will give this book the ultimate accolade I will buy copies as gifts for others. --Patrick Tissington"