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  • Homeric Moments

    Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

    by Eva Brann ...
    Fifty years of reading Homer—both alone and with students—prepared Eva Brann to bring theOdyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. InHomeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will s Power and an Attempt to Undo It

    by Eva Brann ...
    "Eva Brann has a true aptitude for felicitous expression, and one can feel through her prose the presence of a great and patient teacher."--Dennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas, author of Understanding ImaginationSince ancient times, philosophers have written about "the will." But the will is more than a philosophic and scholarly topic. In our everyday speech, what do we mean when we speak of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • How to Constitute a World

    by Eva Brann ...
    Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words:"The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides. They appear to be in radical opposition, but they are really doing the same, new thing: seeing the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Logos of Heraclitus

    by Eva Brann ...
    In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker staring downward and inward, seated apart from the other philosophers. According to Eva Brann, Heraclitus looks within: "There he finds the Logos, the order that is the cosmos, the world without, whose mouthpiece ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What, Then, Is Time?

    by Eva Brann ...
    'What is time?' Well-known philosopher and intellectual historian, Eva Brann mounts an inquiry into a subject universally agreed to be among the most familiar and the most strange of human experiences. Brann approaches questions of time through the study of ten famous texts by such thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, showing how they bring to light the perennial issues ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know

    by Eva Brann ...
    "A dazzling wealth of stimulating reflection and wise insight. To read Feeling Our Feelings is to relive one's own early moments of intellectual awakening, with the all the advantages of age and experience. Eva Brann proves to be a most steady and enlightening guide on an inquiry into the relation between life and thought that few have pursued so thoroughly."—Susan Shell, Department of Political ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Feigning

    On the Originals of Fictive Images

    by Eva Brann ...
    "What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?"Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Doublethink / Doubletalk

    Naturalizing Second Thoughts and Twofold Speech

    by Eva Brann ...
    "Each aphorism is a tiny well-framed picture which at once observes and questions the world’s workings with its accumulated intellectual pleasures, beauties, and quirks."—Washington Independent Review of Books"At times, aphorisms are merely witty, but they can convey and evoke sustained reflection and thought, as those of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or Nicolás Gómez Dávila. To that list we can add ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Homage to Americans

    Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-Spanning Speculations

    by Eva Brann ...
    In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Homage to Americans, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways.In “Mile-high Meditations,” her flight’s late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e.,“being”). As she looks around, she notes (and compares to her own) the ways her fellow travelers pass their time. These observations ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Music of the Republic

    Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings

    by Eva Brann ...
    “This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre DameIn fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato’s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.The Music of the Republic “will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Is Equality an Absolute Good?

    by Eva Brann ...
    The Declaration of Independence aimed to turn our continent from a British colony into an American nation. Yet its first, its primary claim, is that we are all individually equal. What’s that got to do with national independence? However, the Declaration’s claim of universal human equality has grown into our primary political passion.This brief book asks: What concrete, substantial good do we get ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Open Secrets / Inward Prospects

    Reflections on World and Soul

    by Eva Brann ...
    In her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. Open Secrets / Inward Prospects divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of internal vistas and omens, wherein she looks at herself as a sample soul.Often the aphorisms balance opposing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD