Donald Phillip Verene
Donald Phillip Verene (born October 24, 1937[1]) is an American philosophy professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University.[2]
Early life and education
Donald Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois.[1] He studied at Knox College in his hometown, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1959.[1] He earned his doctorate in philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1964.[2]
Verene is married to Molly Black Verene.[1] Their son, Chris Verene is a photographer.
Career
Verene is a lecturing academic at Emory University.[2] He was editor of Philosophy and Rhetoric from 1976 to 1987.[3] From 1982 to 1988, he was the Chair of Emory's Department of Philosophy.
Considered a worldwide authority on Giambattista Vico, he leads Emory's Center for Vico Studies and edits New Vico Studies.[2] His wife, Molly Black Verene,[1] serves as Assistant Director of the Center.[3]
He also serves on the Board of Visitors for Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia.[4]
Verene was a visiting fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1988. He was a visiting scholar at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1996.[3] He is also a Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.[5]
Publications
Verene is the author of Vico’s Science of Imagination (Cornell, 1992)[6] and Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale, 1997).[7]
Other publications written by Verene include:
- Vico and Joyce (Cornell 1987)
- Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 1985)
- The Art of Humane Education (Cornell, 2002)
- The History of Philosophy: A Reader's Guide Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Northwestern, 2008)
References
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- ↑ Pennachetti, Leonard (June 1, 1986). "Vico's Science of Imagination, by Donald Phillip Verene" (book review). Philosophy of the Social Sciences (0048-3931), 16 (2), p. 274.
- ↑ Dodson, Kevin E. (March 31, 1999). "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge" (book review). The Review of Metaphysics (0034-6632), 52 (3), p. 731.
External links
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- 21st-century American philosophers
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- Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America
- American historians of philosophy
- Washington University in St. Louis alumni
- 20th-century American philosophers
- Giambattista Vico scholars
- Knox College (Illinois) alumni
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