Doublethink / Doubletalk

311-page paperback / 4.5" x 7" / ISBN 978-1-58988-113-6 Publication Date: August 2016 "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 teacher—one wishes for her friendship, for more time with her."—The University Bookman"Brann raises questions that briefly illuminate the world and, by removing herself just as quickly, inspires in readers a desire to shed light as well."—The Weekly StandardPhilosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of “doublethink/doubletalk” as “a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that so