Table of Contents

Preface; Part 1: Philosophical Propaedeutics; One: Introduction: On the Historical Study of Philosophy; Two: 100 Great Philosophical Works; Three: The History of Philosophy in Outline; Part 2: Philosophical Perspectives; Four: On Reading Philosophical Books; Five: The Origin of Philosophy and the Theatre of the World; Six: Two Views of History and the History of Philosophy; Part 3: Philosophical Practics; Seven: Philosophical Writing; Eight: Philosophical Literacy.

About the Author

Donald Phillip Verene is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University. He has published widely on Vico and Hegel, including his recent books Hegel's Absolute: An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit and Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico's New Science and Finnegans Wake.