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The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings
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“This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame
In fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato’s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.
The Music of the Republic “will establish [Eva Brann] as one of the great readers and interpreters of the Platonic dialogues in modern times.”—Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College
“It is a wonder and a delight to be led by Eva Brann through the Socratic conversations…Those who do not know the Republic will be initiated into its treasures. Those who believe that it is a great book will understand better what they already know. And all who teach the dialogues will find their souls expanded in the presence of this most generous teacher.” —Ann Hartle, Emory University
“In these wonderfully insightful essays, Eva Brann helps us hear the music of Plato’s dialogues and join the conversation…I found myself filled with envy for her students and happy, with this book, to now be included among them.”—Anthony T. Kronman, Yale University
"The title essay of this collection is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's Republic."—John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University
Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for over fifty years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets / Inward Prospects, Un-Willing, Then and Now, and Homeric Moments (all published by Paul Dry Books).
In fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato’s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.
The Music of the Republic “will establish [Eva Brann] as one of the great readers and interpreters of the Platonic dialogues in modern times.”—Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College
“It is a wonder and a delight to be led by Eva Brann through the Socratic conversations…Those who do not know the Republic will be initiated into its treasures. Those who believe that it is a great book will understand better what they already know. And all who teach the dialogues will find their souls expanded in the presence of this most generous teacher.” —Ann Hartle, Emory University
“In these wonderfully insightful essays, Eva Brann helps us hear the music of Plato’s dialogues and join the conversation…I found myself filled with envy for her students and happy, with this book, to now be included among them.”—Anthony T. Kronman, Yale University
"The title essay of this collection is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's Republic."—John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University
Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for over fifty years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets / Inward Prospects, Un-Willing, Then and Now, and Homeric Moments (all published by Paul Dry Books).
378 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1,2004
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378 pages, Hardcover
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May 1, 2004 by Paul Dry Books
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9781589880085
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1589880080
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English
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A wonderful collection. It borders on over-interpretation at times, and can be a little hard to follow at others, but is nonetheless essential for Platonic scholarship.
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When reading Brann on Plato, I found that in some respects her writings are similar to others like Strauss and Bloom with respect to the seriousness with which Plato was treated and, I should say firmly, I think this is at bottom true. Yet there was this nagging in the back of my mind, which I could not ever quite put into words, that Brann was different. The source of this difference, which is of course a respectable difference by all means, I think became apparent in her essay on translating the Sophist, in which, at the end, she admits that she is does not find Plato to be esoteric. For example, she dedicates much effort to making sense of and understanding, the “ideas,” whereas Strauss, in his essay on the Republic in The City and Man, makes a statement to the effect that no one has made clear what the ideas actually mean. Of course, I believe Brann wrote this after that essay, but, nonetheless, I think that points to a serious disagreement. I don’t mean by this that I don’t like Brann—quite the opposite; her essays on the Sophist and the Phaedo were very helpful and insightful, and I find her style of prose enjoyable—it often brought a smile to my face—and possessing a very non-abstract clarity. One other perhaps telling detail I found was that Brann seems to give some credence, although I’m not sure how much, to the notion of “dating” the dialogues by composition, though, equally if not more, she also emphasizes the dramatic aspect.
All that being said, I should reaffirm that Brann is very delightful to read and ever insightful, especially as a teacher with a view to her students.
All that being said, I should reaffirm that Brann is very delightful to read and ever insightful, especially as a teacher with a view to her students.
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Brilliant essays and lectures about Plato's Socratic dialogues. They are philosophy in and of themselves, though, and one rightly needs a secondary source about the secondary source to truly understand them. The chapters that are lectures are much easier to understand. Brann is absolutely brilliant:
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Somewhere in here Books 5-7 in Plato's Republic are called "the education of Glaucon."
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Arguably the best secondary source on Plato in any language that I'm aware of (mainly the European ones) and certainly the best on the Republic.
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