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What, Then, Is Time? Kindle Edition

by Eva Brann (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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'What is time?' Well-known philosopher and intellectual historian, Eva Brann mounts an inquiry into a subject universally agreed to be among the most familiar and the most strange of human experiences. Brann approaches questions of time through the study of ten famous texts by such thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, showing how they bring to light the perennial issues regarding time. She also offers her independent reflections. Examining the three phases of time, past, present, and future, she argues that neither external time nor the time of the human past is real: the one is a comparison of motions and the other a projection of memory. She concludes that true time is internal and has its origin in the imaginative structure of memory and expectation. Throughout her rich and original study, Brann never fudges the central fact that time is a mystery.
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This is an interesting and challenging book―interesting because of its passion and eloquence, and challenging because of the questions it raises explicitly and implicitly. ― Time's News

A forceful, thorough, and illuminating study of time that deserves a place among the standard works on the subject. Eva Brann writes with a rare combination of mastery and humanity. Hers is a heroic mind, at home in the clash and justice of ideas. -- Robert Grudin, author of Time and the Art of Living

Past and future are a construction; time is now, and it comes from within. A philosopher and a long-haul St. John's College faculty member, Brann can make abstruse speculations readable. ― Baltimore Sun

Brann has a true aptitude for felicitous expression, and one can feel through her prose the presence of a great and patient teacher. -- Dennis Sepper, University of Dallas

About the Author

Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis. This book is part of her trilogy dealing with three central human capacities. The World of Imagination explores our ability to make the absent present. The Ways of Naysaying deals with our ability to deny existence, reality, or being. This component of her trilogy, What, Then, Is Time?, discovers our ability to live with what is no longer, or not yet.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EKJBBCI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (April 25, 2001)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 25, 2001
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 903 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
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Eva Brann

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Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, where she has taught for fifty-eight years. Brann was born in Berlin and immigrated to the United States in 1941. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College, her M.A. in Classics from Yale University, and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

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James Brandon
5.0 out of 5 stars The Idea of Time in Metaphysics - and Physics
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019
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A consummate teacher of philosophy, Eva Brann traces the thread of Time through all the important schools of metaphysics. Worth the book just to follow her in one of the best explications of Kant I've found, as she teases out his take of Time.
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T. B. Boyd
5.0 out of 5 stars Einstein would agree
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2009
Our human brain has been created over millions of years and conditioned by that which we see around us. Three dimensions of space. Time to measure change. It is very difficult for us to imagine that the universe is not as we see it. Is it? Others throughout history asked this question but Einstein was really the first to show that it is not. Time is relative and space-time is a dimension.

But does time exist at all? No, says the author.

Is there a beginning or an end point in space? When did time begin? When will it end? Only if time doesn't exist are these things possible. Read the book and you will at least begin to understand the question.
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Robert Stephan Kristensen Udmark
4.0 out of 5 stars Is time internal or external
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019
It was Saint Augustine's point of view that time is internal in the human soul. Thus, for instance, he wrote that the biblical six days of creation were seen in the eyes of the angels. Hence, with internal time being superior to Newtonian time, since the latter is only mathematical hypothesis for motion. Eva Brann concludes in favour of the human soul.
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Alan Eggers
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Great Minds of Our Time
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2009
Eva Brann is both wide ranging and thoroughly disciplined. Especially impressive is the sheer unexpectedness of her thoroughly logical insights. One is a little reminded of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Recommended for the serious preoessional, the intellectual and every kind of intelligent teader there is.
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Colin Barron
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2015
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Book arrived in good condition - thank you
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