Abstract

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.