Franco Volpi (philosopher)

Franco Volpi (Vicenza, 4 October 1952 – 14 April 2009), 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. He investigated the relation between nihilism and the nothing, and between philosophy and current psychology.

Volpi died on 14 April 2009, at the age of 56, after being run over by an automobile as he rode his bicycle.

Works

• Heidegger e Brentano. L'aristotelismo e il problema dell'univocità dell'essere nella formazione filosofica del giovane Martin Heidegger, Cedam, Padova, 1976, pp. 144
• La rinascita della filosofia pratica in Germania, Francisci, Albano/Padova, 1980 in:Filosofia pratica e scienza politica, Francisci, Abano/Padova, 1980, pp. 180 (con Carlo Natali, Laura Iseppi, Claudio Pacchiani)
• Heidegger e Aristotele, Daphne, Padova, 1984, pp. 226 (ristampa Bari, Laterza, 2010)
• Lexikon der philosophischen Werke, Kröner, Stuttgart, 1988
• Sulla fortuna del concetto di decadence nella cultura tedesca: Nietzsche e le sue fonti francesi, "Filosofia politica", 1995
• Il nichilismo, Biblioteca Universale Laterza, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. IV-152; trad. port. O niilismo, Edicoes Loyola, São Paulo, 1999, pp. 163
• Guida a Heidegger, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997, 1998², pp. XVI-387
• Hegel e i suoi critici, Per i licei e gli istituti magistrali, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998

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