To Turn the Soul - by Andrew Romiti & Daniel P Maher (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

To Turn the Soul collects fourteen essays (three by Eva Brann) inspired by the life and thought of philosopher Jacob Klein. The contributors have been animated by Klein's legacy--whether because they knew him, studied at St. John's College, the institution he shaped, or found his writings a rich stimulus for thought and exploration. While the majority of the essays are based primarily on the study of Klein's writings, they all take up an inquiry inspired by an encounter with his work. Their goal is to deepen or expand Klein's thought by exploring its consequences, or traveling down avenues of investigation that Klein himself pursued and in some cases even initiated. The essays are offered in the hope that they inspire others to read Klein's writings and think for themselves about the matters he takes up in them.

About the Author

Andrew Romiti is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis,
MD, where he also did his undergraduate studies. He earned his doctorate in
Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, where he wrote a
dissertation on Jacob Klein and Descartes.

Daniel P. Maher is Professor of Philosophy at
Assumption University in Worcester, MA, where he is also Director of the Core
Texts & Enduring Questions Program. He earned his doctorate at Boston
College with a dissertation on Aristotle's understanding of counting and
number, which was inspired by Klein's work.

Eva Brann has been a member of the faculty at St. John's College
in Annapolis, MD for more than sixty years, serving as Dean of the College from
1990 to 1997. She is the author of numerous books and essays and is
translator of Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, by
Jacob Klein, her colleague at St. John's until his death in 1978.

Julia Klein is an alumna of the undergraduate program at St.
John's College in Santa Fe, NM. She holds an M.A. in Humanities from Duke
University and an M.A. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America,
where she is also a Doctoral Candidate.

Paul T. Wilford is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at Boston College. He graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and
then earned a second B.A. in Classics and an M.Phil. in Intellectual History
and Political Thought from King's College at Cambridge University, followed by
a doctorate in Philosophy from Tulane University. He is the co-editor with
Samuel A. Stoner of Kant and the Possibility of Progress (PENN, 2021)
and with Kate Rozansky of Athens, Arden, Jerusalem (Lexington,
2017).

David Lawrence Levine taught for twenty-seven years at St.
John's College in Santa Fe, NM, where he served as both Dean of the College and
Director of the Graduate Institute. He has written and lectured broadly on
Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Rousseau, Goethe, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Husserl,
and the Great Books Program at St. John's.

Antonio Marino Lopez is Professor of Greek Philosophy at
Facultad de Estudios Superiores of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
He was a student of Jacob Klein's at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD.

Mary Elizabeth Halper is Dean of the Humanities at Hertog
program and, since 2021, a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. She
holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Dallas and a
doctorate in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.

Burt C. Hopkins, PhD., is affiliated with the University of Lille
France (UMR-CNRS 8163 STL) and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles
University Prague (Czechia). He is the author of The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and
Jacob Klein along with numerous articles on Klein's thought as it relates
to Ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, early modern mathematics, and the
tradition of phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl early in the 20th century.

Michael Dink is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis,
MD, where he also served as Dean of the College and Director of the Graduate
Institute in Liberal Education. He is an alumnus of St. John's College in
Annapolis, where he was a student of Jacob Klein's in a preceptorial on Plato's
Sophist. He earned his doctorate from the School of Philosophy at The
Catholic University of America.

Richard F. Hassing is Research Associate Professor in the
School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, where he has taught
since 1990. He holds M.A. degrees from The Catholic University of America
(Philosophy) and from University of Toronto (Political Theory), and he earned
his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University.

Joseph Cosgrove is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Providence College. His recent scholarship focuses on the philosophy of
science, with a particular interest in the implications of Jacob Klein's
account of the origin of algebra to modern mathematical physics.