He carried out his teaching activity at the universities of Bari, Bologna, Messina, Warsaw, Saarbrücken, obtaining the chair of Philosophy at the University of Nice at the end of his career.

His notoriety in Italy is linked to the success of his political works, translated by important publishing houses in the 1970s. In this regard, we recall Marx and the question of machines (La Nuova Italia, Florence 1971), Class struggle and Marxist morality (Bertani, Verona 1972), Pleasure and death in the philosophy of Epicurus (Einaudi, Turin 1977).

In recent years his writings focused on more specifically philosophical themes: L'angoisse devant la mort. Journal and Cette mort qui n'en est pas une were published by the Presses universitaires de Lille in 1991 and 1993 respectively, while the masterpiece The Thought of Ancient Egypt (Publisud, Paris 1992) was translated into Italian in 2009 by 'publisher Bollati Boringhieri.