Donald Phillip Verene

Donald Phillip Verene (born October 24, 1937

Early life and education Donald Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He studied at Knox College in his hometown, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1959. 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.

Verene was a visiting fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1988. He was a visiting scholar at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1996.

Publications Verene is the author of Vico’s Science of Imagination (Cornell, 1992) and Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale, 1997).

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)