Doublethink / Doubletalk

"Each aphorism is a tiny well-framed picture which at once observes and questions the world's workings with its accumulated intellectual pleasures, beauties, and quirks."Washington Independent Review of Books

"At times, aphorisms are merely witty, but they can convey and evoke sustained reflection and thought, as those of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or Nicolás Gómez Dávila. To that list we can add Eva Brann...In the few hours spent with her, one finds a wise, slightly acerbic, good-humored teacherone wishes for her friendship, for more time with her."The University Bookman

Philosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of "doublethink/doubletalk" as "a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that sometimes flashes fleeting signs of covert wholeness." In this, her second collection of aphorisms and observations, Brann shines a light on our worldon "the way things are"and she does it with characteristic wit and insight.

Eva Brann was born in Berlin in 1929 into a Jewish family. In 1941 she came to Brooklyn as a refugee from the Nazis. She went to Brooklyn College, then to Yale University, where she studied Classics and Ancient History. She was a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and of its excavations of the Athenian Agora (Marketplace), charged with publishing some of its early pottery. In 1957 she joined the faculty of St. John's College, Annapolis, and later Santa Fe, in whose all-required Great Books program she has taught ever since, except for 19901997, when she was dean of its Annapolis campus.

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