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PublisherDry Books, Incorporated, Paul

ISBN-101589880706

ISBN-139781589880702

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Book TitleLogos of Herclitus

Number of Pages169 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Criticism

Publication Year2011

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorEva Brann

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length7.3 in

Item Width4.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-024253

Reviews"In this extraordinary meditation, Eva Brann takes us to the fierce core of Heraclitus's vision and shows us the music of his language. The thought and beautiful prose in The Logos of Heraclitus are a delight."--Barry Mazur, Harvard University

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal182/.4

Synopsis"In this extraordinary meditation, Eva Brann takes us to the fierce core of Heraclitus's vision and shows us the music of his language. The thought and beautiful prose in The Logos of Heraclitus are a delight."--Barry Mazur, Harvard University "An engaged solitary, an inward-turned observer of the world, inventor of the first of philosophical genres, the thought-compacted aphorism," "teasingly obscure in reputation, but hard-hittingly clear in fact," "now tersely mordant, now generously humane." Thus Eva Brann introduces Heraclitus--in her view, the West's first philosopher. The collected work of Heraclitus comprises 131 passages. Eva Brann sets out to understand Heraclitus as he is found in these passages and particularly in his key word, Logos, the order that is the cosmos. "Whoever is captivated by the revelatory riddlings and brilliant obscurities of what remains of Heraclitus has to begin anew--accepting help, to be sure, from previous readings--in a spirit of receptivity and reserve. But essentially everyone must pester the supposed obscurantist until he opens up. Heraclitus is no less and no more pregnantly dark than an oracle...The upshot is that no interpretation has prevailed; every question is wide open." 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 Then and Now , Un-Willing , Feeling Our Feelings , Homage to Americans , Open Secrets / Inward Prospects , The Music of the Republic , and Homeric Moments (all published by Paul Dry Books)., In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker staring downward and inward, seated apart from the other philosophers. According to Eva Brann, Heraclitus looks within: "There he finds the Logos, the order that is the cosmos, the world without, whose mouthpiece and scribe he means to be". The collected work of Heraclitus comprises 131 passages. Some scholars consider them fragments, or even paraphrases of or additions to what Heraclitus originally wrote. Rather than focus on these puzzles of historical scholarship, Eva Brann sets herself the task to understand the thought of Heraclitus as it is found in the passages themselves. Read her account to see why she thinks that "Heraclitus was the first Westerner to ponder how thought and world come to jibe: A Logos that we can hear must be the designer -- and the design -- of the world., Eva Brann delves into Heraclitus's famously cryptic saying, "all things come to be in accordance with this Logos."

LC Classification NumberB224.L6B73 2011