Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Vico’s History of Philosophy, by Donald Phillip Verene

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Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and the Director for Vico Studies at Emory University. He has published a long list of books, the most recent of which include James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake (Northwestern University Press, 2016), Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary (Cornell University Press, 2015), Moral Philosophy and the Modern World (Wipf and Stock, 2013), and The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer (Northwestern University Press, 2011). He has edited and co-edited several collections on Cassirer and Vico, and has published many articles on a range of topics within and beyond German idealism and Italian humanism.

Donald Phillip Verene, “Vico’s History of Philosophy,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38:2 (2017), pp. 289-323.

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