Overview
- Antiseri died at his home in Cesi di Terni in the night between 11 and 12 February after a long illness that had ended his public appearances.
- A leading popularizer of liberal thought in Italy, he helped publish Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies domestically and promoted Austrian‑school thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek.
- He taught philosophy of science at the University of Padova from 1975 to 1986 and methodology of the social sciences at LUISS in Rome until 2009.
- With Giovanni Reale he coauthored one of Italy’s most widely used high‑school philosophy textbooks and in 2002 received an honorary degree from the University of Moscow.
- Publisher Florindo Rubbettino and colleagues praised his legacy, noting recent works including I dubbi del viandante and Cristiano perché relativista, relativista perché cristiano, while recalling his proposal for school vouchers and his refusal of a 1996 offer to enter Forza Italia.