Feigning

Feigning

On the Originals of Fictive Images

By Eva Brann
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Publication Date: 8th February 2022

In Feigning Eva Brann asks, “What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?” Read More
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In Feigning Eva Brann asks, “What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?” Read More
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"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?"

Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.
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  • Price: $20.00
  • Pages: 237
  • Carton Quantity: 44
  • Publisher: Paul Dry Books
  • Imprint: Paul Dry Books
  • Publication Date: 8th February 2022
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781589881617
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHILOSOPHY / General
    PHILOSOPHY / Essays
    PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
Author Bio
Eva Brann was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, 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.
Table of Contents
Preface: The Project’s Words
A. Mental Imagery
B. Copy
C. Original
D. Chapter Summary

Chapter One: The Inquiry’s Frame
A. Problems
B. The Question
C. Feigning
D. Experiences
E. Self-Regard
F. Housekeeping

Chapter Two: Evasions and Nullifications
A. Mind-Emergence
B. The Existence Problem

Chapter Three: The Analysis of Image-Being
A. Ultimate Images
B. Being-and-Nonbeing
C. Table of Terms
D. Intending Speech
E. Diagrams of Consciousness
F. Kinds of Images
G. Spontaneity and Summoning
H. Worldmaking Places
I. Space Stripped-Down
J. Against Fantasy
K. Donegality: Atmospheric Essence
L. Impassioned Imagery
M. Arousing Music
N. Polytheism and Monotheism
O. Augustine’s Trinity
P. Plotinus the Neoplatonist
Q. Idealists on Originals
R. Vico’s Imaginative Universals
S. Corroborations
T. “How it actually was”

Chapter Four: Do Feigning Images Have Originals?
A. Defense (Greek: Apologia) of My Inquiry
B. The Reinstatement of Image-Being
C. The Truth and Primacy of Originals
D. A Reprise of the Ancients
E. The Secular Faith Required
F. The Storytelling Spirit
G. The Angelic Analogy
H. Hades, The Home of Originals
I. Radiant Visibility
J. Similarity: Sameness-in-Difference
K. Postulated
"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?"

Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.
  • Price: $20.00
  • Pages: 237
  • Carton Quantity: 44
  • Publisher: Paul Dry Books
  • Imprint: Paul Dry Books
  • Publication Date: 8th February 2022
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781589881617
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHILOSOPHY / General
    PHILOSOPHY / Essays
    PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
Eva Brann was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, 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.
Preface: The Project’s Words
A. Mental Imagery
B. Copy
C. Original
D. Chapter Summary

Chapter One: The Inquiry’s Frame
A. Problems
B. The Question
C. Feigning
D. Experiences
E. Self-Regard
F. Housekeeping

Chapter Two: Evasions and Nullifications
A. Mind-Emergence
B. The Existence Problem

Chapter Three: The Analysis of Image-Being
A. Ultimate Images
B. Being-and-Nonbeing
C. Table of Terms
D. Intending Speech
E. Diagrams of Consciousness
F. Kinds of Images
G. Spontaneity and Summoning
H. Worldmaking Places
I. Space Stripped-Down
J. Against Fantasy
K. Donegality: Atmospheric Essence
L. Impassioned Imagery
M. Arousing Music
N. Polytheism and Monotheism
O. Augustine’s Trinity
P. Plotinus the Neoplatonist
Q. Idealists on Originals
R. Vico’s Imaginative Universals
S. Corroborations
T. “How it actually was”

Chapter Four: Do Feigning Images Have Originals?
A. Defense (Greek: Apologia) of My Inquiry
B. The Reinstatement of Image-Being
C. The Truth and Primacy of Originals
D. A Reprise of the Ancients
E. The Secular Faith Required
F. The Storytelling Spirit
G. The Angelic Analogy
H. Hades, The Home of Originals
I. Radiant Visibility
J. Similarity: Sameness-in-Difference
K. Postulated