Donald Phillip Verene, Ph.D., L.H.D., is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University and a Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford University, a Visiting Professor in Italian Studies, University of Toronto, and a Visiting Research Fellow, University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Among his recent books are The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer, Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake.

Donald Phillip Verene, Ph.D., L.H.D., is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University and a Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford University, a Visiting Professor in Italian Studies, University of Toronto, and a Visiting Research Fellow, University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Among his recent books are The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer, Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake.