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Franco Volpi
Italian philosopher (1952-2009) · Italy · On the map · Academics · Died at 56
Franco Volpi, was a philosopher, historian of philosophy and a professor at Padua University, who wrote regularly to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Volpi was an expert in German philosophy, in particular Martin Heidegger and Arthur Schopenhauer.
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He investigated the relationship between nihilism and the nothing, and between philosophy and current psychology. In one of his works, he wrote that "real philosophical questions have a history but have no answer". For him, nihilism undermines truth, weakens religion and dissolves dogmatism.
