{"title":"Books by Eva Brann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/brann-eva_medium_2x_b856ee6c-a3d8-43a9-87d0-c8fc86129cc9.webp?v=1685039681\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"homeric-moments","title":"Homeric Moments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad \/ 326-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9679675-7-8 \/ Publication Date: September 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty years of reading Homer—both alone and with students—prepared Eva Brann to bring the\u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e back to life for today's readers. In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly confronts the angry suitors; Achilles gives way to boundless grief at the death of his friend Patroclus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEva Brann demonstrates a way of reading Homer's poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert eye for Homer's extraordinary visual effects and a keen ear for the musicality of his language, she helps the reader see the flickering campfires of the Greeks and hear the roar of the surf and the singing of nymphs. In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, Brann takes readers beneath the captivating surface of the poems to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics \"the marvel of the ages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners.\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e is a feast for the mind and the imagination, laid out in clear and delicious prose. With Brann, old friends of Homer and new acquaintances alike will rejoice in the beauty, and above all the humanity, of the epics.\" —Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, Eva Brann lovingly leads us, as she has surely led countless students, through the gallery of delights that is Homer's poetry. Brann's enthusiasm is as infectious as her deep familiarity with the works is illuminating.\"—Rachel Hadas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brann invites us to enter a conversation [about Homer] in which information and formal arguments jostle with appreciations and frank conjectures and surmises to increase our pleasure and deepen the inward dimension of our humanity.\"—Richard Freis, Millsaps College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone eager to experience the profundity and charm of Homer's great epic poems, Eva Brann's book will serve as a passionate and engaging guide. Brann displays a deep sensitivity to the cadence and flow of Homeric poetry, and the kind of knowing intimacy with its characters that comes from years of teaching and contemplation. Her relaxed but informative approach succeeds in conveying the grandeur of the great Homeric heroes, while making them continually resonate for our own lives. Brann helps us see that this poetry has an urgency for our own era as much as it did for a distant past.\"—Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Author of \u003cem\u003eOld Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Iambographic Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most enjoyable books about Homer are always written by those who have read and taught him the most. Eva Brann's collection of astute observations, unusual asides, and visual snapshots of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a lifelong friendship with the poet, and is as pleasurable as it is informative. \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e is rare erudition without pedantry, in a tone marked by good sense without levity.\"—Victor Davis Hanson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Other Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author of \u003cem\u003eWho Killed Homer?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/KlDNqn\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/homeric-moments\/id546628867?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/homeric-moments-eva-brann\/1111363979?ean=2940014726900\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=Tr0sHkgKBmUC\u0026amp;rdid\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003eis a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131046985,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/HomericMoments_72.jpg?v=1449160667"},{"product_id":"the-music-of-the-republic","title":"The Music of the Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic: Essays On Socrates' Conversations And Plato's Writings \/ 262 pages \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e “will establish [Eva Brann] as one of the great readers and interpreters of the Platonic dialogues in modern times.”—Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is a wonder and a delight to be led by Eva Brann through the Socratic conversations…Those who do not know the \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e will be initiated into its treasures. Those who believe that it is a great book will understand better what they already know. And all who teach the dialogues will find their souls expanded in the presence of this most generous teacher.” —Ann Hartle, Emory University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In these wonderfully insightful essays, Eva Brann helps us hear the music of Plato’s dialogues and join the conversation…I found myself filled with envy for her students and happy, with this book, to now be included among them.”—Anthony T. Kronman, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The title essay of this collection is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Kra2G6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/music-of-the-republic\/id546632348?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/music-of-the-republic-eva-brann\/1101060969?ean=2940014801683\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=4Xor4r9mlu0C\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-music-of-the-republic\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":723482945,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":723484285,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/music_hires.jpg?v=1399077849"},{"product_id":"open-secrets-inward-prospects","title":"Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects: Reflections On World And Soul \/ 435-page hardback \/ 4.5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-019-1 \/ Publication Date: October 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. \u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften the aphorisms balance opposing thoughts, as if the writer were—simultaneously—on both ends of the seesaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the preface Eva Brann describes her manner of composition: \"I wrote these thoughts down on about two thousand sheets, two to three thoughts per paper, and I kept them in some used manila envelopes, the earliest of which bore a postmark of 1972.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of thoughts of one who thinks about everything. Such a person has a fascinating double life, says Eva Brann, one implicit like us and the other explicit for people like her. Her life is not apart from ours but layered over it. Philosophy for her is not a profession with its own methods, its own lingo, its own ethics abstracted from ordinary life. The philosopher looks at everything, and especially at everything human, but she sees better than the rest of us living with the same things.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Ik1TSu\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/open-secrets\/id546635790?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/open-secrets-inward-prospects-eva-brann\/1101060998?ean=2940014274944\u0026amp;format=nook-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Open_Secrets_inward_Prospects?id=_wHYPUK0F4IC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/open-secrets-inward-prospects\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for more than forty years. Brann holds an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale University. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eThe Ways of Naysaying\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWhat, Then, Is Time?\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe World of the Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. A volume of her selected essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Past-Present\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131130377,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/open_secrets_hires.jpg?v=1399078476"},{"product_id":"feeling-our-feelings","title":"Feeling Our Feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e530-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-046-7 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: November 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A dazzling wealth of stimulating reflection and wise insight. To read \u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —Susan Shell, Department of Political Science, Boston College\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on contemporary studies on the brain. \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive look at this pervasive and elusive topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Feeling our feelings\" comes from the words a little boy called Zeke said to me some thirty years ago when he was four. I was swinging him in a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and not doing it right. \"Swing me higher,\" he said, \"I want to feel my feelings.\" The phrase stuck with me; you might say it festered in my mind; it agitated questions: Why do we all want to feel our feelings, so generally that people \"not in touch\" with them are thought to be in need of therapy? What feeling was swinging high inducing? Was it an exultation of the body or an exhilaration of the soul? When he wanted to be feeling his feelings, was there a difference between the general feeling, the mere consciousness of being affected, and his particular feelings, the distinguishable affects?—as, when you sing a song, there is a difference between the singing done and the song sung—or is there? \u003cbr\u003e—Eva Brann, from her Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/feeling-our-feelings-what-philosophers-think-and\/id6745490721\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Feeling_Our_Feelings_What_Philosophers_T?id=ahxaEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/feeling-our-feelings-what-philosophers-think-and-people-know?sId=2e4d3a2c-3a5f-4d6f-b477-6a8ebd9d0631\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty years. Brann holds an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale University. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130959433,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/feelings_hires.jpg?v=1399078632"},{"product_id":"homage-to-americans","title":"Homage to Americans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans: Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-spanning Speculations \/ 273-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-062-7 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: November 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"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 lead her to wonder how each of us lives with ourselves and how we live together—and put up with one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith these questions in mind, the next two essays carefully examine two famous political documents that have shaped American self-understanding: James Madison's \"Memorial and Remonstrance,\" which is the essential argument for separation of church and state; and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which enlarged and refashioned our understanding of the American political character, first given formal expression in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Paradox of Obedience,\" a lecture originally delivered at the Air Force Academy, Brann considers the puzzling character of obedience in a country dedicated to liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concluding piece, \"The Empire of the Sun and the West,\" takes us to Aztec Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. What allowed Cortes and his handful of men to overcome a great empire? In pursuit of an answer, Brann describes a human type whose fulfillment she sees in the American Character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/KramEF\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/homage-to-americans\/id546633216?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/homage-to-americans-eva-brann\/1111531631?ean=2940014801645\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=qKvsPAXYPYkC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/homage-to-americans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis for more than fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131036553,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/homage_hires.jpg?v=1399078844"},{"product_id":"the-logos-of-heraclitus","title":"The Logos of Heraclitus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e169-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.38\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-070-2 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: October 2011\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this extraordinary meditation, Eva Brann takes us to the fierce core of Heraclitus's vision and shows us the music of his language. The thought and beautiful prose in \u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e are a delight.”—Barry Mazur, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“An engaged solitary, an inward-turned observer of the world, inventor of the first of philosophical genres, the thought-compacted aphorism,” “teasingly obscure in reputation, but hard-hittingly clear in fact,” “now tersely mordant, now generously humane.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus Eva Brann introduces Heraclitus—in her view, the West’s first philosopher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collected work of Heraclitus comprises 131 passages. Eva Brann sets out to understand Heraclitus as he is found in these passages and particularly in his key word, Logos, the order that is the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Whoever is captivated by the revelatory riddlings and brilliant obscurities of what remains of Heraclitus has to begin anew—accepting help, to be sure, from previous readings—in a spirit of receptivity and reserve. But essentially everyone must pester the supposed obscurantist until he opens up. Heraclitus is no less and no more pregnantly dark than an oracle…The upshot is that no interpretation has prevailed; every question is wide open.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/zqfR12\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKindle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/logos-of-heraclitus-eva-brann\/1100278101?ean=2940013933484\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-logos-of-heraclitus\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/logos-of-heraclitus\/id526126713?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eiTunes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_The_Logos_of_Heraclitus?id=EAtXEOKog1MC\u0026amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis for more than fifty years. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eALL BOOKS BY EVA BRANN\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131374985,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/heraclitus_hires.jpg?v=1399079301"},{"product_id":"the-envisioned-life","title":"The Envisioned Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Envisioned Life: Essays in Honor of Eva Brann \/ 383-page hardback \/ 5.75\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-040-5 \/ Publication Date: April 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo mark \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e's fiftieth year on the faculty of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-three of her colleagues, friends, and former students have contributed essays, poems, and art to \u003cem\u003eThe Envisioned Life\u003c\/em\u003e. They celebrate Eva's \"passion for learning and her deep love of books, her breadth of knowledge and interests, her boundless energy, her mastery of the spoken and of the written word, her virtues of leadership, and her bright and generous spirit.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the Dedication:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Eva Brann is more than a prolific author and a beloved teacher. She is also a muse. For half a century, she has inspired her fellow tutors, her many friends, and generations of students to stretch their powers of thinking and imagining…To this Eva, then, teacher and learner, friend and colleague; woman of many ways, traveler in the world of spirit and the world at large, wily, resourceful, and circumspect; lover of books and words and wide-open spaces; light-bearer, cookie-bearer, sailor, and flute-player; multiplex and Yodaform—to this Eva, who has united so gracefully the examined and the envisioned life, we dedicate this feast of words and works.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Kalkavage and Eric Salem (editors)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131318153,"sku":"","price":31.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/EnvisionedLife.jpg?v=1426187004"},{"product_id":"un-willing","title":"Un-Willing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It \u003cbr\u003e367-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589880962 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: September 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 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 the \"will\"? Will-words turn up everywhere in the English language. We make \u003ci\u003ewills\u003c\/i\u003e. We exert our \u003ci\u003ewillpower\u003c\/i\u003e. We are \u003ci\u003ewillful\u003c\/i\u003e at times but merely willing at others. Above all, will is there a hundred times a day, when we use the auxiliary verb \"will\" to express our intentions or expectations for the future, or simply to indicate the future tense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet it takes only a moment's reflection to see that there's a tremendous range of meaning here, and so something to think about. Moreover, all of us have wondered now and then, probably both as children and as adults, whether we are really free, and whether being free means being able to do what we want or being free of wants and desires or something else entirely. That is, we've all wrestled with the issue of free will in our informal, non-scholarly ways. Finally, we've probably all asked ourselves whether people who talk about will and willpower are all talking about the same thing or even talking sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are among the issues that Eva Brann puts at the center of \u003ci\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/i\u003e. She takes the whole range of questions about the will that are implicit in our everyday lives and everyday thinking, articulates them, shows us how they have been dealt with within the philosophic tradition and contemporary scientific thought—and then wrestles with them herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Eva Brann has a true aptitude for felicitous expression, and one can feel through her prose the presence of a great and patient teacher.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eDennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"In this monograph on the concept of will, Brann (St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD) remarks 'it is … the measure of a book’s quality how hard it makes us think.' By this criterion, her book is a work of significant quality. Brann approaches her topic as a self-professed outsider but hardly as an amateur, exploring the genealogy of the concept of will in canonical sources from Greek antiquity through to contemporary philosophy (both Continental and analytic) and experimental psychology. She concludes that the will is a 'notional miscellany,' a hodgepodge of accumulated ideas rather than a distinct mental faculty. She suggests replacing the concept of will as a pushing volitional force with 'un-willing,' the capacity to be drawn by reflective and loving interest. Brann's style and vocabulary are rich, and she indulges in lengthy parenthetical asides and lengthier exploratory endnotes. However, her prose voice remains direct and unevasive. This sometimes daunting work invites and encourages readers to put in the necessary effort to rise to its challenge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/un-willing-an-inquiry-into-the-rise-of-wills\/id6745490751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Un_Willing_An_Inquiry_into_the_Rise_of_W?id=RhxaEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/un-willing-an-inquiry-into-the-rise-of-will-s-power-and-an-attempt-to-undo-it?sId=b07fac6c-963b-4bf8-995d-749bf062f0a9\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/pages\/eva-brann\" title=\"Un-Willing by Eva Brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eALL BOOKS BY EVA BRANN\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131403529,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/brann_unwilling_front_cover.jpg?v=1409941712"},{"product_id":"then-now","title":"Then \u0026 Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now: The World's Center and the Soul's Demesne \/ 140-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.19\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-101-3 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: June 2015\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking—without tearing things apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus’s \u003cem\u003eThe History\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Persian Wars\u003c\/em\u003e). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire—and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the “Greek center”)—Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and the Greeks. This difference Brann calls Athens’ “elusive essence,” its \u003cem\u003efreedom \u003c\/em\u003econtrasting with the slavery upon which the Persian empire depended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in “the conservatory of the imagination.” To uncover the meanings and consequences of this union—this imaginative conservatism—and the type of soul to which it applies, Brann offers twelve perspectives, starting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e with “Temperamental Disposition,” and ending with “Eccentric Centrality,” (without ever explicitly focusing on politics). Join her and you’ll find both delight and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"...[Y]ou will read \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e with deep abiding pleasure, slowly savoring the use of language in its highest locution.\"—\u003cem\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1AyDzaq\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/then-now\/id999190017?ls=1\u0026amp;mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/then-now-eva-brann\/1120332078?ean=2940151302746\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=tMNECQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/then-now-the-world-s-center-and-the-soul-s-demesne\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/pages\/eva-brann\" title=\"Un-Willing by Eva Brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eALL BOOKS BY EVA BRANN\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131410505,"sku":"","price":11.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/ThenAndNow_cover.jpg?v=1432487588"},{"product_id":"doublethink-doubletalk","title":"Doublethink \/ Doubletalk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e311-page paperback \/ 4.5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-113-6 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: August 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"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 Eva Brann . . . In the few hours spent with her, one finds a wise, slightly acerbic, good-humored teacher—one wishes for her friendship, for more time with her.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe University Bookman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Brann raises questions that briefly illuminate the world and, by removing herself just as quickly, inspires in readers a desire to shed light as well.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of “doublethink\/doubletalk” as “a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that sometimes flashes fleeting signs of covert wholeness.” In this, her second collection of aphorisms and observations, Brann shines a light on our world—on “the way things are”—and she does it with characteristic wit and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xLWX8F\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1394338797\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/doublethink-doubletalk-eva-brann\/1122750028?ean=2940162103097\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=RbheDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/doublethink-doubletalk\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003ewas born in Berlin in 1929 into a Jewish family. In 1941 she came to Brooklyn as a refugee from the Nazis. She went to Brooklyn College, then to Yale University, where she studied Classics and Ancient History. She was a member of the Ameri­can School of Classical Studies at Athens and of its excavations of the Athenian Agora (Marketplace), charged with publishing some of its early pottery. In 1957 she joined the faculty of St. John’s College, Annapolis, and later Santa Fe, in whose all-required Great Books program she has taught ever since, ex­cept for 1990–1997, when she was dean of its Annapolis campus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/ian-lindquist\/next-question\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/em\u003e column\u003c\/a\u003e on Eva Brann and \u003cem\u003eDoublethink\/Doubletalk.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Action:\u003c\/em\u003e Life’s full of incident, especially if you stay home and read and scribble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Action:\u003c\/em\u003e Of commodities people tend to contribute what they have in overplus, of care often what they lack and want themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Books:\u003c\/em\u003e How to read different difficult texts: 1. Pester them until they open up. 2. Leave well enough alone and think along a parallel path. Both in turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn College:\u003c\/em\u003e Preamble to an early salary report of my college: “The work of teaching is invaluable” – a word that can, in a certain mood, be heard ambiguously. I’m still laughing at how true it turned out to be, money-wise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Death:\u003c\/em\u003e It’s a little late to be afraid of death, now that, whenever it comes, it can’t be said to be untimely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Love:\u003c\/em\u003e Some people grow more lovable the longer they’re dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Memoirs:\u003c\/em\u003e Human nature: Bumped up into first class; outraged because they’re out of my menu choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Philosophy:\u003c\/em\u003e Why does every “putting of the question” expect two sides? Why not?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Our students often know more than they know how to say. Life passes, and it’s the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Watch the news: The human race is in decline. Teach the young: Humanity gets more wonderful by the year – an absolutely plausible paradox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Vehement preconceptions are a world apart from firm opinions; that world between is opened by liberal learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Writing:\u003c\/em\u003e Brevity is, they say, the soul of wit – and the cause of extensive commentary (to wit, the Torah).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Youth:\u003c\/em\u003e People approve of the young striving to find themselves. Not me: they should lose themselves – in something. Forget identity, espouse alterity, and before you know it, you’re yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16988466053,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/Doublethink_72.jpg?v=1466110753"},{"product_id":"how-to-constitute-a-world","title":"How to Constitute a World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e186-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-124-2 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: October 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEva Brann, who has been teaching 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 world as an intelligible whole. Both observe external nature, construing it in their minds—so, from the outside in. The final essay again describes two ways of world-construing from the outside in—one by penetrating the surface of reality, the other by spinning a web of complexity over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five essays in between focus on works by Kant and display the world as constituted from the human inside out. An appreciative review of the \u003cem\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/em\u003e shows how Kant brilliantly justifies a science of nature by making nature itself the construct of our understanding. But he leads us to the abyss of more idealism; externality and realism escape him. The explication of his one absolute moral commandment similarly defines his morality entirely in terms divorced from objective good and concentrated on internal integrity. Finally, his huge unpublished legacy agonizes about bringing a god, first conceived as an inner need, into external existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2y5C6cA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca title=\"How to Constitute a World by Eva Brann on iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1394333193\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/how-to-constitute-a-world-eva-brann\/1125855807?ean=2940158563232\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_How_to_Constitute_a_World?id=2HU2DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/how-to-constitute-a-world\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43730835401,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/HowToConstituteAWorld_cover.jpg?v=1503328948"},{"product_id":"iron-filings-or-scribblings","title":"Iron Filings or Scribblings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e266-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881334 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2\/19\/2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Brann’s form of oppositional, or polar, thinking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they \"settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction. The whole configuration makes, by nature’s wit, a suggestive figure for the thinking mind—at least of a cross-section in its life.\" So these essays range from Ms. Brann’s thoughts \"Of God,\" \"Of Novels,\" \"Of Booklessness,\" to, well, a surprising diversity of topics which comes, unsurprisingly to completion with an essay \"Of Endings.\" Eva Brann thinks a thought and then thinks a thought somewhat on the other side of the first thought—hence the display of thought like iron filings around two ends of a magnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eHow to Constitute a World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21123753967695,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/IronFilings_72_89eb16ac-53e5-47ae-be02-7458272a9b50.jpg?v=1549908594"},{"product_id":"pursuits-of-happiness","title":"Pursuits of Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e612-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881471 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 8\/25\/2020\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John’s College\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays of \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e are articulations of Eva Brann’s \"vocational\" happiness of thinking things through. To Ms. Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an “endless chase,” but rather the right to \u003cem\u003ethe actual practice\u003c\/em\u003e of happiness, as in the “pursuit of a vocation.” With essays like “Tips on Reading Homer” and “The Greatness of Great Books” she keeps at her calling: to understand the world around us, and between us, to listen to our inner self-talk, and to consider what comes, perhaps, from beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested,' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from attachment to superficial gratifications and to pursue a higher-quality contentment with life. She locates this contentment in our ‘interestedness.’ . . . As an American, my encounter with Brann’s work calls me back to a sense of my own good fortune. Against a keening background noise of lament—over the economy, the climate, the pandemic, the predations of technology, crime—Eva Brann’s bright witness lifts me up and out.”—\u003cstrong\u003ePeggy Ellsberg, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brann holds us steady in a world that sometimes seems chaotic . . . At this time, the loudest voices among us are dystopian, and spoken language is losing all civility. If you want a change from this, \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e is a good place to start. Here’s a fascinating, independent-minded writer whose words connect us to living more fully toward a more beneficial life — thought-forms as catalysts.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eva Brann leads us into the imaginations and the perplexities of Milton, Socrates, and Mann, and gets us to delight with her in so many things: from Jane Austen’s scorpion-like sentences to Lincoln’s appreciation of Macbeth, to her musings about her engagement with ancient Greek pots when she was a young archeologist in Athens. Reading her thrilling thoughts about Hypothesis, Being, and the Good is more than the pursuit of happiness: it is sheer happiness.”—\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Mazur, author of \u003cem\u003eImagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Eva Brann’s \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e is engrossing—appropriate for the topic at hand. I couldn’t help but be completely captivated. The essays are serious and playful at the same time. I often laughed from sheer joy in the middle of thinking through and reading about the interests we hold and that hold us. Brann’s reflections on interest elicit that pleasure which is inevitable when we authentically explore the things we love with someone else. She provides here that exciting opportunity to thoughtfully engage with our humanity through the particulars of a soul looking closely at itself in the middle of things.”—\u003cstrong\u003eAmritpal Singh, PhD student at Cornell University and St. John’s College Graduate, 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eHow to Constitute a World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32288336904271,"sku":"","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/PursuitsOfHappiness_72.jpg?v=1590980451"},{"product_id":"feigning","title":"Feigning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeigning: On the Originals of Fictive Images \u003cbr\u003e237-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881617 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2\/8\/22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere 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 prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feigning-Originals-Fictive-Eva-Brann-ebook\/dp\/B09QP25MZ3\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1646061099\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/feigning\/id6442918196\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop, Nook e-book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/feigning-eva-brann\/1139320218?ean=2940160738123\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Feigning?id=HOBeEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop kobo e-book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/feigning\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162247991536,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881617_FC.jpg?v=1634149081"},{"product_id":"is-equality-an-absolute-good","title":"Is Equality an Absolute Good?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e103-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.25\" \/ ISBN 9781589881631 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 9\/13\/22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brief book asks: What concrete, substantial good do we get out of this equality? Well, specific safety of our equality before the law. But beyond that, and the easement of our envy? Equality at work, equalizing, is a mere leveling relation. Whatever is worth having involves distinction, that’s \u003cem\u003einequality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equality-Absolute-Good-Eva-Brann-ebook\/dp\/B0B2BV8Z1F\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EMGK7QOVXJ67\u0026amp;keywords=is+equality+an+absolute+good+brann\u0026amp;qid=1653578602\u0026amp;sprefix=is+equality+an+absolute+good+brann%2Caps%2C68\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/is-equality-an-absolute-good\/id6442917921\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/is-equality-an-absolute-good-eva-brann\/1141100775?ean=2940185663059\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Is_Equality_an_Absolute_Good?id=pmRxEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/is-equality-an-absolute-good\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Eva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIs Equality an Absolute Good?\u003c\/em\u003e is her fourteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeigning, Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic, and Homeric Moments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720930562288,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/EqualityAbsoluteGood_FINALCOVER1.17.22.jpg?v=1650476034"},{"product_id":"to-turn-the-soul","title":"To Turn the Soul: Essays Inspired by Jacob Klein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e395-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589881976 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1\/21\/2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Turn the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e collects fourteen essays (three by Eva Brann) inspired by the life and thought of philosopher Jacob Klein. The contributors have been animated by Klein’s legacy—whether because they knew him, studied at St. John’s College, the institution he shaped, or found his writings a rich stimulus for thought and exploration. While the majority of the essays are based primarily on the study of Klein’s writings, they all take up an inquiry inspired by an encounter with his work. Their goal is to deepen or expand Klein’s thought by exploring its consequences, or traveling down avenues of investigation that Klein himself pursued and in some cases even initiated. The essays are offered in the hope that they inspire others to read Klein’s writings and think for themselves about the matters he takes up in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Romiti\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he also did his undergraduate studies. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, where he wrote a dissertation on Jacob Klein and Descartes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel P. Maher\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, where he is also Director of the Core Texts \u0026amp; Enduring Questions Program. He earned his doctorate at Boston College with a dissertation on Aristotle’s understanding of counting and number, which was inspired by Klein’s work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a member of the faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD for more than sixty years, serving as Dean of the College from 1990 to 1997. She is the author of numerous books and essays and is translator of \u003cem\u003eGreek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra\u003c\/em\u003e, by Jacob Klein, her colleague at St. John’s until his death in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Klein\u003c\/strong\u003e is an alumna of the undergraduate program at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. She holds an M.A. in Humanities from Duke University and an M.A. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America, where she is also a Doctoral Candidate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul T. Wilford\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and then earned a second B.A. in Classics and an M.Phil. in Intellectual History and Political Thought from King’s College at Cambridge University, followed by a doctorate in Philosophy from Tulane University. He is the co-editor with Samuel A. Stoner of \u003cem\u003eKant and the Possibility of Progress\u003c\/em\u003e (PENN, 2021) and with Kate Rozansky of\u003cem\u003e Athens, Arden, Jerusalem \u003c\/em\u003e(Lexington, 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Lawrence Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e taught for twenty-seven years at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, where he served as both Dean of the College and Director of the Graduate Institute. He has written and lectured broadly on Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Rousseau, Goethe, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Husserl, and the Great Books Program at St. John’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Marino Lopez\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Greek Philosophy at Facultad de Estudios Superiores of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He was a student of Jacob Klein’s at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Elizabeth Halper\u003c\/strong\u003e is Dean of the Humanities at Hertog program and, since 2021, a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Dallas and a doctorate in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurt C. Hopkins, PhD.,\u003c\/strong\u003e is affiliated with the University of Lille, France ( UMR-CNRS 8163 STL), and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague (Czechia). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein\u003c\/em\u003e, along with numerous articles on Klein’s thought as it relates to Ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, early modern mathematics, and the tradition of phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl early in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Dink\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he also served as Dean of the College and Director of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education. He is an alumnus of St. John’s College in Annapolis, where he was a student of Jacob Klein’s in a preceptorial on Plato’s \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e. He earned his doctorate from the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard F. Hassing\u003c\/strong\u003e is Research Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, where he has taught since 1990. He holds M.A. degrees from The Catholic University of America (Philosophy) and from University of Toronto (Political Theory), and he earned his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Cosgrove\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. His recent scholarship focuses on the philosophy of science, with a particular interest in the implications of Jacob Klein’s account of the origin of algebra to modern mathematical physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Andrew Romiti and Daniel Maher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46245948555504,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/ToTurntheSoul_FINALCOVER.jpg?v=1719418043"},{"product_id":"late-life-with-socrates","title":"Late Life with Socrates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTK-page paperback \/ 4.25\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 9781589882195\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2\/23\/27 (available for preorder)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA nonagenarian philosopher reflects on the role of Socrates in her life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten towards the end of her ninety-fourth year, Eva Brann’s essay \u003cem\u003eLate Life with Socrates\u003c\/em\u003e is her musing on “late life” and on the philosopher. She put her thoughts down as they came, in the presence of the Socrates she had come to know over her more than sixty years reading the dialogues in which Plato presents him to his readers. She intended this twenty-five thousand word self-conversation as a preface to a full-length book. Soon after she sent this putative preface to her publisher, she informed them that there would not be a lengthy manuscript to follow. So Paul Dry Books decided to publish this short book, dense with Ms. Brann's thoughts, full of turnings and asides, and rich with aphoristic depth so her readers could listen to the music that ran through her late life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. 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