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Galvano della Volpe Quotes on Truth

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Galvano della Volpe on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:

    “Marxism must be a science of historical reality, not a metaphysics.”

  • Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:

    “Hegel's dialectic hides under philosophical language a non-scientific procedure.”

  • Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:

    “Aesthetic value rests on the rationality of form, not on Romantic feeling.”

  • Attributed to Galvano della Volpe:

    “Concrete knowledge is the union of empirical inquiry and logical determination.”