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Politics & Social SciencesThe 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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
'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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
History
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"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 The Logos of Heraclitus are a delight." -- Barry... See More
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"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 In fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"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... See More