Then & Now by Eva Brann

Then & Now by Eva Brann

These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking--without tearing things apart.

Then

In the first essay, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus's The History (The Persian Wars). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire--and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the Greek center)--Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and the Greeks. This difference Brann calls Athens' elusive essence, its freedom contrasting with the slavery upon which the Persian empire depended.

Now

In the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in the conservatory of the imagination. To uncover the meanings and consequences of this union--this imaginative conservatism--and the type of soul to which it applies, Brann offers twelve perspectives, starting with Temperamental Disposition and ending with Eccentric Centrality (without ever explicitly focusing on politics). Join her and you'll find both delight and education.

Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include 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).

Eva Brann was born in Berlin in 1929 into a Jewish family. In 1941 she came to Brooklyn as a refugee from the Nazis. She went to Brooklyn College, then to Yale University, where she studied Classics and Ancient History. She was a member of the Ameri-can School of Classical Studies at Athens and of its excavations of the Athenian Agora (Marketplace), charged with publishing some of its early pottery. In 1957 she joined the faculty of St. John's College, Annapolis, and later Santa Fe, in whose all-required Great Books program she has taught ever since, ex-cept for 1990-1997, when she was dean of its Annapolis campus.

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ISBN 13	9781589881013
ISBN 10	158988101X
Title	Then & Now
Author	Eva Brann
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paul Dry Books, Inc
Year published	2015-07-14
Number of pages	138
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