No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant no is another no, that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores...
No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentenc...
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 wife and returning husband, sit face to face at their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly confronts the angry suitors; Achilles gives way to...
Fifty years of reading Homer--both alone and with students--prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for to...
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 Mazur, Harvard University
An engaged solitary, an inward-turned observer of the world, inventor of the first of philosophical genres, the thought-compacted aphorism, teasingly obscure in reputation, but hard-hittingly clear in fact, now tersely mordant, now generously humane.
Thus Eva Brann introduces Heraclitusin her view, the West s first...
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...
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 engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.
The Music of the Republic will establish Eva Brann] as one of the great readers and interpreters of the Platonic dialogues in modern times. Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College
It is a wonder and a delight to...
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
