Elaine Scarry
Author of On Beauty and Being Just, who argues that beauty is an apprenticeship in justice.
Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard. On Beauty and Being Just (1999), delivered first as the Tanner Lectures, is her most direct treatment of the aesthetic and its relation to ethical life.
What the Wiki Takes From Scarry
Her argument is that beauty is not opposed to justice but an apprenticeship in it. To be arrested by a beautiful thing is to practise recognising a value that exists independently of one's own needs — which is precisely the recognition justice requires. The wiki takes from her the link between beauty and Attention, and the case that cultivating the eye is not a retreat from the world but a way of attending to it more truthfully.