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Labriola, Antonio
Antonio Labriola (1843–1904) was born in Cassino near Naples on July 2, 1843, to a modest middle-class family (his father was a high school teacher). In 1861, the year in which the newly united Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, he enrolled in the University of Naples, at that time the leading center in Italy for idealist thought, and read philosophy. After failing to complete his degree, he worked as a schoolteacher and as a journalist while looking to secure an academic appointment. His early essays on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Plato, together with studies on Baruch Spinoza and Ludwig Feuerbach (which marked a significant step in his evolution away from idealism toward materialism), and the support of his university tutor, the great Hegelian scholar ...
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