Galvano della Volpe 1895 – 1968
Galvano della Volpe was an Italian philosopher and aesthetician and the principal architect of the school of analytical Marxism that came to be known as the Della Volpian school. After early training in Hegelian philosophy he turned in the 1940s and 1950s toward a robust scientific Marxism that took its bearings from logical empiricism and the methodology of the natural sciences. His Logic as a Positive Science, Critique of Taste, and Rousseau and Marx developed a sustained critique of Hegelian dialectic and a materialist aesthetics, while shaping a generation of Italian Marxist thinkers, including Lucio Colletti.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Italian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Marxism, Continental
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:
“Marxism must be a science of historical reality, not a metaphysics.”
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Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:
“Hegel's dialectic hides under philosophical language a non-scientific procedure.”
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Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:
“Aesthetic value rests on the rationality of form, not on Romantic feeling.”
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Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:
“Concrete knowledge is the union of empirical inquiry and logical determination.”
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Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:
“Critical sociology is the legitimate heir of classical political economy.”