Pursuits of happiness : on being interested / Eva Brann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brann, Eva T. H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning.

Books and reading.

Philosophy.

Theology.

Physical Description:

xv, 612 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia Paul Dry Books, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Thing-Love: Do Cars Die?

2. Secular Original Sin: Aboriginal Wrongness

3. Immediacy: The Ways Of Humanity

4. The Tradition: Its Timelessness

5. On Compromise: Using Imagination

6. Sacred Scripture: In Secular Settings

7. The Empires Of The Sun: Encounter The West

8. Patriotism: Large Love, Less Liking

9. Liberal Education: Inefficient Efficacy

10. Teachers And Students: Intimate Distance

11. The Greatness Of Great Books: A Determinate Meaning?

12. Dangers To Liberal Education: Call To Resistance

13. Seminar Questions: What Works?

14. Self-Address: Silent Speech

15. Tips On Reading Homer: And On Writing Yourself

16. Novels Over Dramas: Command Performance

17. The Actuality Of Fictions: Nonexistent Objects

18. Carryover: Influence And Hypothesis

19. On Being Interested: The Central Essay

20. Athens: The City Shining Under The Hill

21. The Eumenides Of Aeschylus: The Grandeur Of Reasonableness

22. Lady Macbeth: The Tyrant's Wife

23. Postmodern Don Quixote: Terminal Indeterminism

24. Eve Separate: Mother Of Modernity

25. The Unexpurgated Robinson Crusoe: His God Daily

26. Persuasion: "The Most Beautiful Of Her Works"

27. Clueless Wisdom: Captain Delano

28. The Fourth Brother Karamazov: Pavel And His Brothers

29. Effi Briest: A Personal Note

30. Time Bounces: Skipping Through Tenses

31. Where, Then, Is Time?: Not In The World

32. Studying The Imagination: Musing Introspection

33. Difficult Desire: Laborious Introspection

34. A Dispassionate Study: Of The Passions

35. Parmenidean Identity: Thinking And Being

36. Three Platonic Places: Or Better, Spots

37. Is Philosophy A Subject?: Love Of Wisdom.

ISBN:

9781589881471

1589881478

OCLC:

1121602792