Donald Phillip Verene

Donald Phillip Verene (born October 24, 1937[1]) is an American philosophy professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Chandler 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 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.[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[6] and Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge.[7]

Other publications written by Verene include:

  • Vico and Joyce (Cornell 1987)
  • Vico’s Science of Imagination (Cornell, 1992)
  • Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 1985)
  • Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale, 1997)
  • The Art of Humane Education (Cornell, 2002)
  • The History of Philosophy: Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Northwestern, 2008)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "CV for Donald Verene". emory.edu. Emory University.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Profile of Donald Verene". Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. at Emory University
  3. 1 2 3 People at the Center for Vico Studies, Emory University
  4. ↑ "Ralston College". ralston.ac. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Profile of Donald Philip Verene". lincei.it (in Italian). Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Dodson, Kevin E (March 31, 1999). "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". The Review of Metaphysics (0034-6632), 52 (3), p. 731.
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