Vanessa Freerks is a post-doctoral fellow at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Her main research interests revolve around consumer society, temporality, technology, and death denial in western society. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics.

Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the author of numerous books, including Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Things Human and Divine, Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy.