Saviano “illustrious graduate” at the Federico II University of Naples: “Like a return home”

The Federico II University has awarded the writer Roberto Saviano the title of illustrious graduate

ROME – The Federico II University of Naples has decided to recognize Roberto Saviano with the title of “Illustrious Graduate”. The writer, who graduated from Federico II in Philosophy, commented as follows on social media: “I once graduated in Philosophy, once I dreamed of never leaving Naples, I chose to study Bruno and Spinoza , Heidegger and Levinas, Merlau Ponty and Bloch, Adorno and Simon Weil, Sarte, Michaelstaedter and Peter Wessel Zapffe, Arendt and Malatesta I looked for a close encounter with the truth, I found it and it overwhelmed me things happened, the chosen practices made me encounter the cage, the pain, the isolation and then the momentum, the challenge, the possibility >Yesterday the Federico II University elected me Illustrious Graduate: it was like a homecoming. Studying in Naples has determined my whole life“.