Wilfried Ver Eecke (born 22 August 1938) is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University.
Life and work Wilfried Ver Eecke received his PhD in philosophy from UCLouvain in 1962, with the dissertation on Raymond Aron and the Philosophical Problems Concerning History. followed by doctoral and post-doctoral work in Paris (with Paul Ricœur, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan, and Émile Benveniste), in Freiburg im Breisgau (with Niklas Luhmann) and at Harvard University (with Hilary Putnam, Stanley Cavell, Erik Erikson, Roman Jakobson, Jerome Kagan, and Roger Brown (psychologist)). Eecke joined Georgetown faculty in 1967. In 1973, he received the annual prize of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium for a manuscript later published in 1979 as Negativity and Subjectivity: A Study about the Function of Negation in Freud, Linguistics, Childpsychology and Hegel.
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