What is the author's style in On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry?

Scarry divides On Beauty and Being Just into two parts. The first, "On Beauty and Being Wrong," is an examination of what beauty is not - or what we at first assume it is not, only to be later disproved. This section, though she later refers to it as a "negative argument" is not negative in that it is dismissive of beauty or of any particular set of ideas; rather, it is negative in that she begins with an examination of what beauty does not do, to go on to prove what it does do. She examines the results of beauty in the second section, "On Beauty and Being Right," which posits that beauty, rather than being harmful, actually is the impetus for a lot of social good. Before society is ready for just social structures, individuals take pleasure in the symmetry of beautiful objects; afterward, these beautiful objects reinforce society's symmetry.