Elaine Scarry argues that beauty is a call to social justice, drawing on artists and philosophers from Plato to the present to show three different ways in which beauty presses us to repair the injuries of the world. Scarry is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics at Harvard University and is the author of The Body in Pain (Oxford University Press, 1987), On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton University Press, 2001) and Dreaming by the Book (Princeton University Press, 2001), and recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.