...Bonnie Honig This article presents three models of emergency politics—deliberative (Elaine Scarry), promiscuous (Douglas Crimp), and legalist (Louis Freeland Post)—and assesses their promise and limits for democratic theory and practice. Emergency politics names not the friend/enemy decisionism...

... of this or that specific person, was intended to provoke a revulsion against the practice of torture. The assumption was that to make torture explicit, visible, was to indict it. In Elaine Scarry’s view, in one of the most influential studies of tor- ture, torture violates or unsettles the very notion of the human...

... an intense expres- sion of a kind of pain that is expressed through religious curse words. Noth- ing definitive can be explained with the typical laws of expression governing not only Joe’s ‘‘body in pain’’ but also the laws of the narratives themselves. Elaine Scarry writes, ‘‘Physical pain does...

... in the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. Scarry, Elaine. Dreaming by the Book. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Schleifer, Ronald. Analogical Thinking: Post-Enlightenment Understanding in Lan- guage, Collaboration, and Interpretation. Ann Arbor: University...

... in sympathetic identification. Even as criticism goes confessional, the personal signature of the critic becomes a griffe, and a distinctive—indeed unique—bearer of meaning and value. Harpham assesses four contemporary critics with remarkable characteristics: Elaine Scarry, Martha Nussbaum...

.... John Veitch (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1907), 55–56. 4. For Scarry, pain is the limit threshold of human language and communication. This inexpressibility, however, and loss of world, can be recovered post-trauma​​ through modes of creativity. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making...

... Dates (London: Verso, 2002), 105. 50. Compare Dershowitz, ‘‘Torture Warrant 283. 51. Elaine Scarry describes this rhetorical process as simply one of flagrant contradiction by which Dershowitz ‘‘protects his arguments by giving them deniability’’ (Scarry, ‘‘Five Errors in the Reasoning of Alan...

..., no. 5 (October/November 2002) [originally published as a response to Elaine Scarry’s “Citizenship in Emergency,” same issue]; “Sacrificial Nation,” The Utopian (blog), March 29, 2010, httpwww.the-­utopian .org/post/2340099709/sacrificial-­nation; “Christianity, National Identity and the Problem...