Donald Phillip Verene

Donald Phillip Verene

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Emory University
Director, Institute for Vico Studies

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

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

Author:

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)
Hegel’s Absolute: An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 2007)
The History of Philosophy: Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Northwestern, 2008)

Editor:

Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer 1935–1945 (Yale, 1981).

Co-Editor

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	Donald Phillip Verene Home Essays by Me Essays by Others		Donald Phillip Verene Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Emory University Director, Institute for Vico Studies Ph.D., Washington University, 1964; L.H.D., Knox College, 1990 Research interests: German Idealism, Italian Humanism, metaphysics, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of literature, with emphasis on the thought of Hegel, Cassirer, and Vico. Author: 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) Hegel’s Absolute: An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 2007) The History of Philosophy: Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Northwestern, 2008) Editor: Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer 1935–1945 (Yale, 1981). Co-Editor The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms (Yale, 1996) Giambattista Vico: Keys to the New Science; Translations, and Commentaries, and Essays (Cornell, 2009). On this site: Cassirer’s View of Myth and Symbol [1966] Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer: The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms [1969] Cassirer’s Concept of Symbolic Form and Human Creativity [1978] Cassirer's Metaphysics [2008]