Elaine Scarry
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Elaine Scarry (born June 30, 1946) is an American academic and literary theorist.
She is the author of The Body in Pain (1985) which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain.
She argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world.
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