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Helpful essays on Kant and the Pre-Socratics from the philosopher Eva Brann, a National Humanities Medal recipient.

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The title essay...is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's Republic."--John Sallis

Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John's College

As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Branns form of oppositional, or polar, thinking. To 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 natures wit, a suggestive figure for th...

Free will: what is it? Un-Willing canvasses the great philosophers, to better understand the assumptions shaping current brain-science research.

Eva Brann delves into Heraclitus's famously cryptic saying, "all things come to be in accordance with this Logos.

These 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. Then: In the first essay, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus's The History (The Persian Wars). 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 Greek...

In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.

Written over a decade ago, Eva T. H. Brann's enlightening analysis of American education places the recent debate on the means and ends of a liberal education in new perspective. She goes beyond discussion of courses and particular books to claim that philosophical inquiry is far more important to the improvement of education than curricular and administrative schemes. She provides both a broad philosophical and historical analysis of educatio...

No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treate...

Over a thousand aphorisms by the philosopher Eva Brann, a National Humanities Medal recipient

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 regarding time. She also offers her independent refl...

A soul-seeking collection spanning 30 years of writing.

Eva Brann's essays and thoughts on Madison, Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address, and . . . the Aztecs!

What is time? Eva Brann approaches this question through the study of ten famous texts and through independent reflections. Both approaches drive toward the conclusion that ordinary, natural succession-time has its origin in three time phases, past, present and future.

A serious inquiry into the nature of our passions, emotions, feelings, and moods.

After 50 years of reading Homer, Eva Brann brings the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life.