Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John's CollegeHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 Iron Filings, 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).
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1. THING-LOVE: Do Cars Die? 2. SECULAR ORIGINAL SIN: Aboriginal Wrongness 3. IMMEDIACY: The Ways of Humanity 4. THE TRADITION: Its Timelessness 5. ON COMPROMISE: Using Imagination 6. SACRED SCRIPTURE: In Secular Settings 7. THE EMPIRE OF THE SUN: Encounters the West 8. PATRIOTISM: Large Love, Less Liking 9. LIBERAL EDUCATION: Inefficient Efficacy 10. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: Intimate Distance 11. THE GREATNESS OF GREAT BOOKS: A Determinate Meaning? 12. DANGERS TO LIBERAL EDUCATION: Call to Resistance 13. SEMINAR QUESTIONS: What Works? 14. SELF-ADDRESS: Silent Speech 15. TIPS ON READING HOMER: And on Writing Yourself 16. NOVELS OVER DRAMAS: Command Performance 17. THE ACTUALITY OF FICTIONS: Nonexisting Objects 18. CARRYOVER: Influence and Hypothesis 19. ON BEING INTERESTED: The Central Essay 20. ATHENS: The City Shining Under the Hill 21. THE EUMENIDES: The Grandeur of Reasonableness 22. LADY MACBETH: The Tyrant's Wife 23. POSTMODERN DON QUIJOTE: Terminal Indeterminism 24. EVE SEPARATE: Mother of Modernity 25. THE UNEXPURGATED ROBINSON: His God Daily 26. PERSUASION: "The Most Beautiful of Her Works" 27. CLUELESS WISDOM: Captain Delano 28. THE FOURTH BROTHER KARAMAZOV: Pavel and His Brothers 29. EFFIE BRIEST: A Personal Note 30. TIME BOUNCES: Skipping through Tenses 31. WHERE, THEN, IS TIME?: Not in the World 32. STUDYING THE IMAGINATION: Musing Introspection 33. DIFFICULT DESIRE: Laborious Introspection 34. A DISPASSIONATE STUDY: Of the Passions 35. PARMENIDEAN IDENTITY: Thinking and Being 36. THREE PLATONIC PLACES: Or Better, Spots 37. IS PHILOSOPHY A SUBJECT?: Love of Wisdom 38. THE [IDEA OF] THE GOOD: The Ultimate Interest
1. THING-LOVE: Do Cars Die? 2. SECULAR ORIGINAL SIN: Aboriginal Wrongness 3. IMMEDIACY: The Ways of Humanity 4. THE TRADITION: Its Timelessness 5. ON COMPROMISE: Using Imagination 6. SACRED SCRIPTURE: In Secular Settings 7. THE EMPIRE OF THE SUN: Encounters the West 8. PATRIOTISM: Large Love, Less Liking 9. LIBERAL EDUCATION: Inefficient Efficacy 10. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: Intimate Distance 11. THE GREATNESS OF GREAT BOOKS: A Determinate Meaning? 12. DANGERS TO LIBERAL EDUCATION: Call to Resistance 13. SEMINAR QUESTIONS: What Works? 14. SELF-ADDRESS: Silent Speech 15. TIPS ON READING HOMER: And on Writing Yourself 16. NOVELS OVER DRAMAS: Command Performance 17. THE ACTUALITY OF FICTIONS: Nonexisting Objects 18. CARRYOVER: Influence and Hypothesis 19. ON BEING INTERESTED: The Central Essay 20. ATHENS: The City Shining Under the Hill 21. THE EUMENIDES: The Grandeur of Reasonableness 22. LADY MACBETH: The Tyrant's Wife 23. POSTMODERN DON QUIJOTE: Terminal Indeterminism 24. EVE SEPARATE: Mother of Modernity 25. THE UNEXPURGATED ROBINSON: His God Daily 26. PERSUASION: "The Most Beautiful of Her Works" 27. CLUELESS WISDOM: Captain Delano 28. THE FOURTH BROTHER KARAMAZOV: Pavel and His Brothers 29. EFFIE BRIEST: A Personal Note 30. TIME BOUNCES: Skipping through Tenses 31. WHERE, THEN, IS TIME?: Not in the World 32. STUDYING THE IMAGINATION: Musing Introspection 33. DIFFICULT DESIRE: Laborious Introspection 34. A DISPASSIONATE STUDY: Of the Passions 35. PARMENIDEAN IDENTITY: Thinking and Being 36. THREE PLATONIC PLACES: Or Better, Spots 37. IS PHILOSOPHY A SUBJECT?: Love of Wisdom 38. THE [IDEA OF] THE GOOD: The Ultimate Interest
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