Donald Phillip Verene
American philosophy professor and author (born 1937)
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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]
Donald Phillip Verene | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 24, 1937 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis (PhD) |
| Thesis | An Examination of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1964) |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Emory University |
Notable students | William Desmond |
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)
