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Feeling Our Feelings
Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, …
Logic of Desire
Peter Kalkavage's "The Logic of Desire"guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read …
The Usefulness of the Useless
"A little masterpiece of originality and clarity."--George Steiner "A necessary book."--Roberto Saviano "A wonderful little book that will delight you."--Francois Busnel …
Flight of Ikaros
"One of the great and lasting books about Greece."Patrick Leigh Fermor"An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archaeologist wandering the back country during …
Then & Now
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 thinkingwithout tearing things apart."Then"In the first …
How to Constitute a World
In fifty years of teaching the Great Books at St. John's College, Eva Brann has come to know intimately the world's philosophers, from ancient Greek to modern.How to Constitute a …
Who Loves You Like This
This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood destroyed.
Tattered Banners
Remembering life under the Romanovs"With his eye for detail, his taste for anecdote, and his sheer delight in the process of living, Rodzianko has created a delightful, if often …
Hide & Seek
"One of the great books of the Second World War"Antony Beevor"Hide and Seek, first published in 1954 and unavailable for many years, is surely among the best wartime memoirs. It is …
Rocky Stories
Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish of the Philadelphia Inquirer spent a year visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art to capture the stories of 'Rocky runners', …
Birds, Peace, Wealth
These three comedies provoke searching reflections on the religious nature of humanity: What are the psychological sources of piety? What is longed for in and through piety? What …