Franco Volpi (philosopher) explained

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 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".[1] For him, nihilism undermines truth, weakens religion and dissolves dogmatism.[2]

Volpi also taught at the University of Witten/Herdecke as well as the universities of Laval, Poitiers and Nice.[3]

Volpi died on 14 April 2009, at the age of 56, after being run over by an automobile as he rode his bicycle.[4]

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  1. Book: Marino, Stefano . Schembari . Andrea . Pearl Jam and Philosophy . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 2022 . 978-1-5013-6278-1 . New York . 23.
  2. Book: Eranos Yearbook 70: 2009/2010-2011: Love on a Fragile Thread . Daimon . 2012 . 978-3-85630-750-9 . Einsiedeln, Switzerland . da.
  3. Book: Hopkins . Burt . Crowell . Steven . The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy . 3 . Routledge . 2020 . 978-0-9701679-3-4 . Oxford.
  4. News: Pensador dinámico, filósofo contemporáneo . El mundo . Spain . 17 April 2009 . 24 April 2009.
  5. Book: Volpi, Franco . El nihilismo . Siruela . es . 2007 . 28 May 2016 . 9788498410686 . Roma-Bari . IV-152 . Google Books.