George di Giovanni

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George di Giovanni (born 1935) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at McGill University. He works in German idealism, nineteenth‑century philosophy, phenomenology (Husserl and Merleau‑Ponty), and philosophy of religion.

Education and career
Di Giovanni studied in Rome at the Ginnasio Torquato Tasso and later studied in Toronto and in Germany. He earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1970, with a dissertation titled “Contingency: Its Foundation in Hegel’s Logic of Becoming,” supervised by Emil Fackenheim.

Contributions to philosophy
In 2010, he produced a new English translation of Hegel’s Science of Logic, following earlier translations by Johnston and Struthers (1929) and A. V. Miller (1969). He also wrote a substantial introduction, which many regard as the best discussion of how Hegel’s logic developed during the Jena period. He argues that Hegel’s logic should be read as a form of Kantian transcendental logic rather than as general or formal logic, a view that reviewers say improves on previous English editions.

Together with H. S. Harris, he co-edited Between Kant and Hegel, which includes translations of selected writings by Reinhold, Schulze, and Maimon.