Nicolai Abbagmano

Nicolai Abbagmano, 1901-, Italian philosopher, Ph.D. University of Naples. He taught at the University of Turin from 1936 and became the leading existentialist, critisizing French and German existentialism. He set out his philosophy in La struttura dell'esistenza (1939) and called for a change in philosophy's outlook in his 3-volume Storia della filosofia (2d ed. 1963). Some of his writings were translated into English in Critical Existentialism (ed. by Nino Langiulli, 1969).

See

• Garilesnoff-Caravaglia, Education as Existential Possibility (1972)