Iron Filings or Scribblings

Iron Filings or Scribblings

Thinking Things Out

By Eva Brann
Paperback $22.95

$22.95

Publication Date: 19th February 2019

As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking. Read More
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As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking. Read More
Description
To introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they “settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction. The whole configuration makes, by nature’s wit, a suggestive figure for the thinking mind—at least of a cross-section in its life.” These essays range from Ms. Brann’s thoughts “Of God,” “Of Novels," “Of Booklessness,” to, well, a surprising diversity of topics, the final one, fittingly “Of Endings.” Eva Brann thinks a thought and then thinks a thought at the other end of the pole of the first thought—hence the display of thought like iron filings around two ends of a magnet.
Details
  • Price: $22.95
  • Pages: 250
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: Paul Dry Books
  • Imprint: Paul Dry Books
  • Publication Date: 19th February 2019
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781589881334
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
    PHILOSOPHY / General
    PHILOSOPHY / Essays
Reviews
"...[Y]ou will read Then & Now with deep abiding pleasure, slowly savoring the use of language in its highest locution."—Washington Independent Review of Books



"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."—Library Journal on Homeric Moments



"Brann's style and vocabulary are rich, and she indulges in lengthy parenthetical asides and lengthier exploratory endnotes. However, her prose voice remains direct and unevasive. This sometimes daunting work invites and encourages readers to put in the necessary effort to rise to its challenge."—CHOICE on Un-Willing
Author Bio
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 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).
Table of Contents
1. Gods
2. Topics
3. Booklessness
4. Literature
5. Novels
6. Sensibility
7. Serenity
8. Silence
9. Faith
10. Perennials
11. Phantasms
12. Transcending
13. Beauty
14. Articulateness
15. Detail
16. Attachment
17. Friends
18. Teaching
19. Freedom
20. Lifetimes
21. Self
22. Property
23. Passion
24. Antinomianism
25. Decency
26. Stays
27. Evolution
28. Scandal
29. Administration
30. Gratitude
31. Deadness
32. Playfulness
33. Endings
To introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they “settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction. The whole configuration makes, by nature’s wit, a suggestive figure for the thinking mind—at least of a cross-section in its life.” These essays range from Ms. Brann’s thoughts “Of God,” “Of Novels," “Of Booklessness,” to, well, a surprising diversity of topics, the final one, fittingly “Of Endings.” Eva Brann thinks a thought and then thinks a thought at the other end of the pole of the first thought—hence the display of thought like iron filings around two ends of a magnet.
  • Price: $22.95
  • Pages: 250
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: Paul Dry Books
  • Imprint: Paul Dry Books
  • Publication Date: 19th February 2019
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781589881334
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
    PHILOSOPHY / General
    PHILOSOPHY / Essays
"...[Y]ou will read Then & Now with deep abiding pleasure, slowly savoring the use of language in its highest locution."—Washington Independent Review of Books



"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."—Library Journal on Homeric Moments



"Brann's style and vocabulary are rich, and she indulges in lengthy parenthetical asides and lengthier exploratory endnotes. However, her prose voice remains direct and unevasive. This sometimes daunting work invites and encourages readers to put in the necessary effort to rise to its challenge."—CHOICE on Un-Willing
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 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).
1. Gods
2. Topics
3. Booklessness
4. Literature
5. Novels
6. Sensibility
7. Serenity
8. Silence
9. Faith
10. Perennials
11. Phantasms
12. Transcending
13. Beauty
14. Articulateness
15. Detail
16. Attachment
17. Friends
18. Teaching
19. Freedom
20. Lifetimes
21. Self
22. Property
23. Passion
24. Antinomianism
25. Decency
26. Stays
27. Evolution
28. Scandal
29. Administration
30. Gratitude
31. Deadness
32. Playfulness
33. Endings