Glenn Alexander Magee, Editor

This collection of original essays has been assembled in honor of Donald Verene, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics at Emory University, Director of the Institute of Vico Studies, and editor of the journal New Vico Studies. The collection, a traditional Festschrift published on the occasion of Verene's sixty-fifth birthday, includes contributions from Verene's contemporaries and younger colleagues discussing specific aspects of his work as well as themes that intersect with his interests. These contributions honor a teaching career that has spanned four decades in several countries, as well as a record of outstanding scholarship published in half a dozen languages. Together these essays represent a temperament that sees philosophy not as a technical enterprise, but as a human endeavor that does not lose sight of the original and lasting meaning of the term - the love of wisdom.

Table of Contents

Andrea Battistini Ariadne and the Minotaur: The Cultural Role of a Philosophy of Rhetoric

Bruce A. Haddock Against the Current: Speculative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom

Donald W. Livingston Hume on the Divine and Philosophic Barbarism

Ann Hartle The Essay as Self-Knowledge: Montaigne's Philosophical Appropriation of History and Poetry

Thora Ilin Bayer Socratic Self-Knowledge and the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

William Desmond Surplus Immediacy and the Defect(ion) of Hegel's Concept

Tönu Viik The Reversal of the Absolute in Hegel

John Michael Krois Ars Memoriae, Philosophy and Culture: Frances Yates and After

Glenn A. Magee The Recovery of Myth and the Sensus communis

Writings of Donald Phillip Verene to June 2002
             A. Chronologically Arranged
             B. Selected Works by Topic

· ISBN 1-889680-28-1 · Published November 2002 · 216 pages · Institutions $45, Individuals $30.

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