Antonio Banfi

Antonio Banfi (Vimercate, 30 September 1886 – Milano, 22 July 1957) was an Italian philosopher and senator.

He is also noted for founding the Italian philosophical school called critical rationalism.

[1] Although influenced by the neo-Kantians in Marburg and Edmund Husserl, whom he knew personally, Banfi moved away from idealism and instead focused on Marxism, in particular historical materialism.

Banfi was a chair of the University of Milan's History of Philosophy department.

[2] Among his students were Dino Formaggio and Mario Dal Pra.