Eva Brann
Autore di Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Sull'Autore
Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has 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 mostra altro Books. Her other books include Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink / Doubletalk, Then 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. mostra meno
Opere di Eva Brann
Homage to Americans: Mile-High Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-Spanning Speculations (2010) 10 copie
Opere correlate
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Collaboratore — 366 copie
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1968) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 146 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Brann, Eva
- Nome legale
- Brann, Eva T. H.
- Data di nascita
- 1929
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Luogo di nascita
- Berlin, Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Annapolis, Maryland, USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University (PhD | MA)
Brooklyn College (BA) - Attività lavorative
- tutor
professor
intellectual historian
philosopher - Relazioni
- Heidegger, Martin (teacher)
Klein, Jacob (colleague) - Organizzazioni
- St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Humanities Medal (2005)
Russell Kirk Paideia Prize (2014) - Breve biografia
- Eva Brann was born to a German-Jewish family in Berlin. She emigrated in 1941 to the USA and received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1950, her M.A. in classics from Yale University in 1951, and her Ph.D. in archaeology from Yale in 1956. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College. Vermont.
She obtained a faculty position at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1957, and in her early years there was very close to her colleague, the philosopher Jacob Klein. After Prof. Klein's death, Prof. Brann increasingly assumed his role as the defining figure of St. John's College and the Great Books program.
She is the longest-serving member of the faculty and previously served as dean of the college.
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Brann illuminates and injects with many meanings the surviving fragments of Heraclitus. It took awhile to get into the linguistic circumscription philosophical technique being used, but in the end it does seem warranted. Whether Heraclitus actually meant for Logos to play the role of stable opposition and unifier of ratios or it is just Brann telling that story through his fragments is secondary to the fact that this is a deep meditative reading.
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- ISBN
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She goes wrong when she counter-intuitively argues that Heraclitus is incorrectly read as a "flux" philosopher, and would be better paired with his contemporary Parmenides, who famously claimed that "All is one." While I wouldn't disagree that Heraclitus stands in relation (per the Logos) to Parmenides' declaration, I do not think the One of Parmenides is the same One that Heraclitus speaks of. Instead of denying the flux (change, agonism, strife) that is at the core of Heraclitus' fragments, she could have pushed Hegel's conclusions further, and found Heraclitus' true descendant in Adorno and his Negative Dialectics, which does not seek to reconcile opposites into an untrue unity.… (altro)