Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "With this marvelous new work, Verene has now proven himself to be the world's leading expert on Vico and Joyce. This is an essential book on a great subject that goes beyond all earlier studies." --Donald E. Kelley, author of The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History
"We should be grateful for a book by a scholar who knows his Vico and the rest of the philosophical tradition, and who is able to place the Wake's references to philosophy in their proper context." --James Joyce Literary Supplement