is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University. He has held visiting positions at Pembroke College, Oxford University; University of Toronto; University of Rome La Sapienza; and the Folger Library. He received a Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from Knox College. He is a recipient of the Galileo Prize and is a Fellow of the Italian national academy of arts and sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His writings on the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico and on the philosophy of symbolic forms of Ernst Cassirer are standards of originality and scholarship in Italian Humanism and German Idealism. Among his numerous books are Vico’s Science of Imagination, Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge; The Art of Humane Education; The History of Philosophy: A Reader’s Guide, Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century; Hegel’s Recollection; and The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer. His Knowledge of Things Human and Divine examines the relationship between Vico’s New Science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. He is the former editor of the journals Philosophy and Rhetoric and New Vico Studies, and is past president of the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Bulgarian. His autobiography, along with four essays on his work, appeared in a special issue of Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.
