Thinking in an Emergency

Author/Contributor(s):	Scarry, Elaine
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	04/09/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

For 60 years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the idea of emergency. Here, the author of the landmark study "The Body in Pain" offers a stunning and original analysis of the claim of emergency.