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Nicola Abbagnano was born on 15 July, 1901 in Salerno, Kingdom of Italy, is an Italian existential philosopher (1901-1990). Discover Nicola Abbagnano's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Born 15 July 1901
Birthday 15 July
Birthplace Salerno, Kingdom of Italy
Date of death 9 September, 1990
Died Place Milan, Italy
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1901

Nicola Abbagnano (15 July 1901 – 9 September 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher.

Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on 15 July 1901.

He was the first-born son of a middle-class professional family.

His father was a practicing lawyer in the area.

1917

In the following years, he taught philosophy and history at the Liceo Umberto I°, in Naples, and from 1917 to 1936 he was the professor of philosophy and pedagogy in the Istituto di Magistero Suor Orsola Benincasa.

At the same time, he actively contributed as secretary of editorial staff to the review of Logos, edited by his mentor Aliotta.

1922

He studied in Naples, and in November 1922 obtained a degree in philosophy, his thesis that became the subject of his first book Le sorgenti irrazionali del pensiero (1923).

His mentor was Antonio Aliotta.

1923

During the Neapolitan period, Abbagnano's theoretical work is represented by Le sorgenti irrazionali del pensiero (1923), as well as Il problema dell'arte (1925), La fisica nuova (1934) e Il principio della metafisica (1936).

These works are all influenced by the teaching of Aliotta, who encouraged Abbagnano's interest in the methodological problems of science.

Equally influential was the anti-idealist controversy that is particularly evident in his volume on art.

After moving to Turin, Abbagnano turned to the study of existentialism, which by this time was also the interest of the general Italian philosophical culture.

1927

Besides the volumes and the essays on theoretical character Nicola Abbagnano, since his youth he has published many historical monographs, including Il nuovo idealismo inglese e americano (1927), La filosofia di E. Meyerson e la logica dell'identità (1929), Guglielmo d'Ockham (1933), La nozione del tempo secondo Aristotele (1933), Bernardino Telesio (1941).

1936

From 1936 to 1976 he was a full professor of History of Philosophy, and then in 1939 he was appointed to a full-time professorship at the Faculty of Letters and philosophy at the University of Turin.

Immediately after World War II, he helped found the Centro di studi metodologici in Turin.

1939

He formulated an original version of existentialism in his widely recognized book, La struttura dell'esistenza (1939), which was followed by his Introduzione all'esistenzialismo (1942) and a set of essays collected in Filosofia religione scienza (1947) and by Esistenzialismo positivo (1948).

1943

In 1943, he played a very important part in the debate on existentialism that appeared in Primato, the review of the fascist opposition led by Giuseppe Bottai.

In the first years after the war, Abbagnano's interest turned to American pragmatism.

Above all is the version offered by John Dewey to the philosophy of science and to neopositivism.

1946

His major historiographic work is found in the Storia della filosofia published by UTET (1946–1950), which was preceded by the Compendio di storia della filosofia (1945–1947), which was closer to a textbook.

1948

In existentialism, having freed himself from the negative implications he found in Heidegger, in Jaspers, in Sartre, in Dewey's pragmatism and in neopositivism, Abagnano saw the signs of a new philosophical trend, that he called a "New Enlightenment" in an article written in 1948.

The development of this idea in the fifties was precisely characterized both by his interest in science, in particular, sociology, and by an attempt to define the program of a philosophy, that he first called a "New Enlightenment" and later a "methodological empirism".

1950

With his student, Franco Ferrarotti, Abbagnano founded in 1950 the Quaderni di sociologia, and in 1952 he was joint editor with Norberto Bobbio of the Rivista di filosofia.

1952

Then from 1952 to 1960 he inspired a group of scholars for a "New Enlightenment," and organized a series of conventions attended by the philosophers who were engaged in the construction of a "lay" philosophy and who were interested in the main trends of the foreign philosophical thought.

1956

During this period essays were collected in Possibilità e libertà (1956) and in Problemi di sociologia (1959) but, one of his most important works is the Dizionario di filosofia (1961), a true "summa" meant to clarify the principal concepts of philosophy.

1962

A few years later, the latter was followed by a collection entitled Storia delle scienze, which he coordinated for UTET (1962).

Abbagnano defined his philosophy as "positive existentialism".

His "philosophy of possible" condemned other existentialists for either denying human possibility or exaggerating it.

In his later work, he tended to adopt a more naturalistic and scientific approach to philosophy.

1964

In 1964, he began his contributions to the Turin newspaper La Stampa.

1965

His work in the last decades, starting from 1965 on, mainly consists of articles appearing in La Stampa and in Giornale that were later assembled in different collections, Per o contro l'uomo (1968), Fra il tutto e il nulla (1973), Questa pazza filosofia (1979), L'uomo progetto Duemila (1980), La saggezza della vita (1985), La saggezza della filosofia (1987).

1969

Some of his writings were translated into English in Critical Existentialism (ed. by Nino Langiulli, 1969).

1972

In 1972, he moved to Milan and discontinued his contributions to La Stampa, but began writing for Indro Montanelli's Giornale.

In Milan, he held the office of Town Councillo, elected from the lists of the Liberal Party, and was also the Councillor of Culture.

1990

He died on 9 September 1990, and was buried in the cemetery of Santa Margherita Ligure, the Riviera town where he had spent his vacations for many years.

His last book, written a few months before his death, is the autobiographical text Ricordi di un filosofo (1990).