The
Envisioned Life
:
Essays in Honor of Eva Brann
Edited by Peter Kalkavage and Eric Salem
Also available in hardcover
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To mark Eva Brann'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 The Envisioned Life. 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."
From the Dedication:
"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."
The Envisioned LifeEdited by Peter Kalkavage and Eric SalemAlso available in paperback
Hardcover,
383 pp.,
$39.95 |
To mark Eva Brann'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 The Envisioned Life. 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 . . . [read more] |
Feeling Our FeelingsEva Brann
Trade Paper,
530 pp.,
$28.00 |
Retail: $35.00. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $28.00 In Feeling Our Feelings, 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 cont . . . [read more] |
Homeric MomentsEva BrannAlso available in hardcover
Trade Paper,
326 pp.,
$19.95 |
Fifty years of reading Homer — both alone and with students — prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. In Homeric 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 . . . [read more] |
The Music of the RepublicEva Brann
Hardcover,
378 pp.,
$24.95 |
In this collection of essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates has with his fellow Athenians. She shows how Plato's dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today. From introductory pieces on the Republic, the Phaedo, and the Sophist, to an account of the less well known Charmides, each essay starts w . . . [read more] |
Open Secrets / Inward ProspectsEva Brann
Hardcover,
435 pp.,
$24.95 |
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 aphori . . . [read more] |