AN INHERITANCE WITHOUT TESTAMENT: MOUNTAINS AS A LABORATORY OF THE FUTURE
Sala Studio ISR | I piano
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Polo delle Scienze Umane e sociali
Sala Studio ISR | I piano
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Polo delle Scienze Umane e sociali
This is a propitious moment in history to think again about a conceptual pair that has played a key role in shaping public opinion in the modern age: the dichotomy between conservation and progress. Since at least the French Revolution, the choice to side with the “progressives” or the “conservatives” has shaped the ideological force field, within which the political identity of citizens in emerging democracies has crystallized. But is this still the case? In his talk, banking on the works of A. Tocqueville, H. Arendt, and H. Rosa, Paolo Costa will discuss the primacy of the future in the modern experience of time and its impact on the conflict between conservatives and progressives in a condition of systemic socio-economic acceleration. In the second part of his talk, the speaker will ask whether there is room today, or rather if there is an interspace between conservation and transformation, from which it is possible to imagine a future disconnected from the accelerationist imagination. To this end, he will focus on a marginal geographical location, the uplands, as a field of exploration for alternative modernities in which innovation serves not only to accelerate but also to slow down.
PAOLO COSTA | FBK-ISR
Cycle of Seminars: Conservation and Transformation in Ethics and Religion
Scientific coordination: Massimo Leone, Director FBK-ISR
The event will be in-person in the FBK Aula Piccola, while seats last, and online, and it will be held in Italian.
The speaker will be present and give his talk in Italian.
Registration by May 9, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. is required in order to arrange the connection.
Speakers
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Paolo Costa, 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, and modern spirituality. He is the author of several books (last but not least: L’arte dell’essenziale: un’escursione filosofica nelle terre alte, BEE 2023) and the Italian translator of works by Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, Charles Darwin, Hans Joas, Harvey Cox, Hartmut Rosa, and others. Among his writings in English: The Post-Secular City: The New Secularization Debate, Brill-Schöning, 2022; Reenchantment as Resonance, in H. DE VRIESE - M. MEIJER (eds.), The Philosophy of Reenchantment, Routledge, 2021, pp. 132-158; A Secular Wonder, in G. LEVINE (ed.), The Joy of Secularism. 11 Essays for How We Live Now, Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 134-154.
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The initiative was also realized thanks to the contribution of "Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali" of the Ministry of Culture.