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Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones

New Books in Disability Studies

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Iris Murdoch's Book on Beauty and Being Just

The title easy beauty just comes from sort of a also a version of these these ideas that are all I think in a conversation with each other. The writer Elaine Scary uses some of these ideas from Iris Murdoch and her book on beauty and being just. She says more problematically under crediting something is having beauty and that thing now reveals itself as being more complex so she gives this example of looking at palm trees  and thinking palm trees are really ugly, horrible and cheesy and dumb.

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