Thinking in an Emergency

Name: Thinking in an Emergency
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ISBN: 9780393340587

ISBN-10: 0393340589

ISBN-13: 9780393340587

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elaine Scarry

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The author of the landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry offers a stunning and original analysis of the âclaim of emergencyâ that modern governments have used to undermine democracy and increase executive power. For sixty years, democratic governments have bypassed legal provisions concerning the declaration of war, the use of torture, civilian surveillance, and nuclear weapons. In the desire for swift national action, we citizens devalue thinking and ignore ways to check government power, plunging our countries into a precarious state between monarchy and democracy.Drawing on the work of philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists, Scarry here proves decisively that thinking and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Preface



The Seduction to Stop Thinking



Four Models of Emergency Thinking


CPR


Mutual Aid Contracts


The Swiss Shelter System


The Constitutional Brake on War



The Place of Habit in Acts of Thinking


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index