Paolo Costa

Paolo Costa (1966), philosopher, is a Tenured Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). His main fields of research are philosophical anthropology, moral and political philosophy, theory of secularization, modern spirituality. He is the author of several books and the Italian translator of works by Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, Charles Darwin, Hans Joas, Harvey Cox, and others. Among his writings in English: The Post-Secular City: The New Secularization Debate, Paderborn: Brill-Schöning, 2022; Prisoners of a Metaphor: Secularization as a Deicidal Epidemic, “Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”, 7, 2, 2021, pp. 376-397; Reenchantment as Resonance, in H. De Vriese - M. Meijer (eds.), The Philosophy of Reenchantment, London and New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 132-158; The One and the Many Stories. How to Reconcile Fact-checking and Sense-making in the Secularization Narrative, in H. Joas (ed.), David Martin and the Sociology of Religion, London & New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 50-66; Realism, Relativism and Pluralism: An Impossible Marriage?, “Philosophy and Social Criticism”, 41, 4-5, 2015, pp. 413-422; A Secular Wonder, in G. Levine (ed.), The Joy of Secularism. 11 Essays for How We Live Now, Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 134-154; Personal Identity and the Nature of the Self, in J. Giordano, B. Gordijn (a cura di), Neuroethics: Scientific, Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 117-133.

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