Iron Filings or Scribblings - Thinking Things Out

As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking.

List of contents

1. Gods

2. Topics

3. Booklessness

4. Literature

5. Novels

6. Sensibility

7. Serenity

8. Silence

9. Faith

10. Perennials

11. Phantasms

12. Transcending

13. Beauty

14. Articulateness

15. Detail

16. Attachment

17. Friends

18. Teaching

19. Freedom

20. Lifetimes

21. Self

22. Property

23. Passion

24. Antinomianism

25. Decency

26. Stays

27. Evolution

28. Scandal

29. Administration

30. Gratitude

31. Deadness

32. Playfulness

33. Endings

About the author

Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for sixty-one years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include 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 (all published by Paul Dry Books).

Product details

• Authors: Eva Brann
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781589881334
• ISBN: 978-1-58988-133-4
• No. of pages: 266
• Weight: 350 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works