{"product_id":"how-to-constitute-a-world-eva-brann-9781589881242","title":"How to Constitute a World","description":"\u003cp\u003eEva Brann, who has taught at St. John's College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides. They appear to be in radical opposition, but they are really doing the same, new thing: seeing the world as an intelligible whole. Both observe external nature, construing it in their minds--so, from the outside in. The final essay again describes two ways of world-construing from the outside in--one by penetrating the surface of reality, the other by spinning a web of complexity over it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The five essays in between focus on works by Kant and display the world as constituted from the human inside out. An appreciative review of the \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Kant brilliantly justifies a science of nature by making nature itself the construct of our understanding. But he leads us to the abyss of more idealism; externality and realism escape him. The explication of his one absolute moral commandment similarly defines his morality entirely in terms divorced from objective good and concentrated on internal integrity. Finally, his huge unpublished legacy agonizes about bringing a god, first conceived as an inner need, into external existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEva Brann is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Brann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589881249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589881242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979273371903,"sku":"9781589881242","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f074cb0-40d3-48f7-b5c9-367ff11c61ea.jpg?v=1683244671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-constitute-a-world-eva-brann-9781589881242","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}