Envisioned Life: Essays in Honor of Eva Brann

by Kalkavage, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781589880412
• ISBN10: 1589880412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-21
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

To mark Eva Brann's fiftieth year on the faculty of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-three of her colleagues, friends, and former students have contributed essays, poems, and artwork to The Envisioned Life. They celebrate Brann's "passion for learning and her deep love of books, her breadth of knowledge and interests, her boundless energy, her mastery of the spoken and of the written word, her virtues of leadership, and her bright and generous spirit." Paul Dry Books has published three books by Eva Brann: Homeric Moments, The Music of the Republic, and Open Secrets / Inward Prospects.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. vii
Plato's Meno and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics	p. 1
The Eleatic Stranger and Parmenides in Plato's Sophist	p. 27
A Recollection of Eva	p. 43
The Theoretical Presuppositions of Liberal Education	p. 50
Colloquial Hermeneutics: Eva Brann's Odyssey	p. 78
What Alexander Baumagarten Did to Horace's Ars Poetica: The Construction of Aesthetics	p. 88
Eva Brann and the Philosophical Achievement of Jacob Klein	p. 106
Hegel's Logic of Desire	p. 120
Zion Light	p. 137
Favorite Analogies	p. 141
A World of Worldless Truths, An Invitation to Philosophy	p. 155
The Political Imagination: Existentialism in the Raj Quartet	p. 170
On Two Novels Recalling World War II	p. 193
The Dying Vine	p. 210
How Did Theaetetus Prove His Theorem?	p. 230
The World of Fiction and the Land of the Dead	p. 254
On the Perpetuation of Our Institutions	p. 272
The Work of Imagination: Sundry and Summary	p. 280
Sun and Cave	p. 299
The Hazardous Future of Democracy in America: Tocqueville & Lawyers in America	p. 319
Sights and Insights: In Greece with Homer and Eva	p. 338
Not Is Not	p. 350
Twelve Poems for a Reader of Novels	p. 375
Contributors	p. 389
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