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Donald Phillip Verene

Donald Phillip Verene

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy
Director of the Institute for Vico Studies

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

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The Institute for Vico Studies

Ph.D., Washington University, 1964
L.H.D., Knox College, 1990

Research: German Idealism, Italian Humanism, metaphysics, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of literature, with emphasis on the thought of Hegel, Cassirer, and Vico.

Selected Publications: Author of Vico's Science of Imagination (Cornell 1992); Hegel's Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY 1985); The New Art of Autobiography: An Essay on the "Life of Giambattista Vico, Written by Himself" (Oxford 1991); Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale 1997); The Art of Humane Education (Cornell 2002); Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico's New Science and Finnegans Wake (Yale 2003); editor of Hegel's Social and Political Thought; Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer 1935-45 (Yale 1981); Vico and Joyce (SUNY 1987).

Fellowships and Honors: Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University, fall 1988; Director of seminar on "Barbarism, Memory, and Rhetoric" at the Folger Institute, Washington, DC, spring 1994; President of the Hegel Society of America, 1992-94; recipient of the Galileo Prize, Pisa, Italy, 1998.

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