Reputed to be one of the most difficult yet rewarding works of philosophical literature, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has long been in need of an introduction for English readers. Without using jargon or technical terms, Donald Phillip Verene provides that introduction, guiding the reader through Hegel's text as a whole and offering a way to grasp the major insights and sections of Hegel's text without oversimplifying its narrative. A glossary of sixty of Hegel's terms, discussed in both their original German and English equivalents, is included.
Reputed to be one of the most difficult yet rewarding works of philosophical literature, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has long been in need of an i...
With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel s words, the long process of education towards genuine philosophy, this introduction emphasizes the importance of striking up a conversation with the past. Only by looking to past masters and their works, it holds, can old memories and prior thought be brought fully to bear on the present. This living past invigorates contemporary practice, enriching today s study and discoveries. In this book, groundbreaking philosopher and author Donald Verene addresses two themes: why should one study the historically great texts and, if such a study is...
With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel s words, the long process of education towards genuine philosophy, this introduction emphasizes the im...
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of texts that help us to understand the progress of Vico's thinking, culminating in the definitive version of the New Science, which was published in 1744.
Bayer and Verene provide useful introductions both to the collection as a whole and to the individual writings. What emerges is a clear picture of the decades-long...
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the back...
"The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms" marks the culmination of Donald Phillip Verene s work on Ernst Cassirer and heralds a major step forward in the critical work on the twentieth-century philosopher. Verene argues that Cassirer s philosophy of symbolic forms cannot be understood apart from a dialectic between the Kantian and Hegelian philosophy that lies within it. Verene takes as his departure point that Cassirer never wishes to argue Kant over Hegel. Instead he takes from each what he needs, realizing that philosophical idealism itself did not stop with Kant but developed...
"The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms" marks the culmination of Donald Phillip Verene s work on Ernst Cassirer and heralds a major step for...
Description: This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it draws upon Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and the works of Renaissance Christian humanists who were influenced by them, such as Pico, Vives, and Erasmus. The moral act guided by the cardinal virtues and the good is seen as the key to human happiness and the formation of character. Character is the basis for the pursuit of self-knowledge, decorum, and dignity, which properly guide human affairs. Part 2 takes up Hegel's principle of the labor of the...
Description: This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it dr...
Giambattista Vico (1668 1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of humanity and gives an account of the stages common to the development of all societies in their historical life. Controversial at the time of its publication in 1725, the New Science has come to be seen as the most ambitious attempt before Comte at a comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the philosophy of history prior to Hegel. Despite the fundamental importance of the New...
Giambattista Vico (1668 1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the ...
"James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake" explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write "Finnegans Wake." Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the "Wake" go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to...
"James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake" explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico ...
"James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake" explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write "Finnegans Wake." Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the "Wake" go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to...
"James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake" explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico ...
Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy begins in wonder. The first three chapters concern the origin of metaphysics as the transformation of the conception of reality in ancient Greek mythology, the ontological argument as the basis of Christian metaphysics, and the Renaissance cosmology of infinite worlds and the coincidence of...
Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip...
