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Elaine Scarry (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
Project Title
The Language of Physical Pain
University of Pennsylvania
Return to All Fellows
Fellowship Work Summary, 1979–80
Genre > Monographs
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Philosophy
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Pain
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Torture
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War
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Psychological Trauma
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Genre > Conference Keynote
Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness. Keynote: Human Rights and the Humanities 2012 by Elaine Scarry
Literature
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Human Rights
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Beauty
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Justice
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Genre > Public Lectures
Elaine Scarry, “Imagining Color: Color Threads in Proust and Murasaki”
Literature
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Fiction and Poetry
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Aesthetics
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Neuroesthetics
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Neuroscience
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Shikibu Murasaki
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Marcel Proust
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