As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking.
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).
