Paolo Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5757-0555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Il senso del naufragio
Ha senso studiare la natura umana
Unsovereign democracy
The essay articulates the insight that the current crisis of liberal democracies is also a problem of cramped political imagination, which can benefit from the resources of religious imagination, particularly of Christian theological imaginary. If there is a truth emerging from the long history of democratic régimes is that a healthy democracy cannot survive for long without citizen empowerment. Put otherwise, precisely because democracy is a dem…
Libertà e risonanza
Viviamo – noi e la stragrande maggioranza delle persone che frequentiamo quotidianamente – in società che si definiscono e si autorappresentano come “liberali”. Il fenomeno della libertà è al centro delle nostre esistenze e della nostra stessa identità personale. Non c’è unanimità, tuttavia, riguardo alla matrice di questa condizione di libertà. Il saggio, anche se sposa una visione polisemica della libertà, non rinuncia al tentativo di identific…
The Task of Critique is to Question the Ontological Premises of our Identity”. An Interview with Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth is internationally renowned for being one of the leading political and social philosophers of our time, and is highly regarded for his work on recognition and the struggles for recognition. In this interview, he discusses his work over the past four decades, starting from the rise of his intellectual vocation to his most recent book on the sovereignty of work. The text is a transcript, revised by the author, of the dialogue Honneth h…
«Secolarizzazione». Critica di una categoria dell'illegittimità storica
«Ma è davvero tutto qui?» Il disagio della secolarizzazione
Secolarizzazione
Nemesi. Un simbolo istruttivo
Premessa
Autobiografia intellettuale
How Design Is Appropriated
The relationship between people and designed space is often approached exclusively with text-based research techniques (e.g., interviews and questionnaires). After proposing a theoretical framework for design from a sociological perspective, this paper first illustrates the limitations of those techniques when investigating appropriation of designed space, i.e., situated behaviors and perceptions. Then, the observation of socio-environmental indi…
Standing on the Edges of the New Paradigm
Toward the end of Faith as an option, Hans Joas suggested looking outside Europe to see what the future of Christianity may be in a world which is now fully globalized. "If we are to analyze religion in the present day", he claimed without hesitation, "it is vital to adopt a global, that is, non-Eurocentric perspective".1
Democracy Is Always Going to Be Hard”
This interview with the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor was designed and realized to celebrate his ninetieth birthday in November 2021. The interview touches on all the main themes of Taylor's oeuvre, from his view of philosophy to the inherent link between human intelligence and strong evaluations, from the Immanent Frame to postsecularity, from today's democratic crisis to the 1980s debate between liberals and communitarians, from Xi Jinpin…
The First Thing Philosophers Have to Do Is to Learn”
Martha C. Nussbaum is internationally renowned for being one of the leading moral and political philosophers of our time, and is highly regarded for her work on the role of the emotions in moral and political reasoning. In this interview, in dialogue with her interlocutors, she discusses her work over the past four decades, and gives insights into her book in progress on opera and its relationship to liberal political ideals, The Republic of Love…
Progetto e abitare tra monoscalarità e transcalarità. Riflessioni a margine di una crisi pandemica
La formazione delle Scuole di Architettura è perlopiù mono-scalare, nel senso che tende a concentrarsi su una sola scala progettuale. L'abitare è invece inter-scalare. Questa asincronia tra agire progettuale e abitare genera una tensione tra gli esiti del costruito e i suoi destinatari. Qui si mette ciò in relazione con i problemi generati da emergenze sanitarie di tipo pandemico, valutando come la limitata socialità imposta dalle misure di preve…
The Post-Secular City
The Post-Secular City" is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. "The Post-Secular City" examines the alleged shift from a "secular" to a "post-secular" dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization "theorem" (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the "de-constructors" and the "ma…
Prisoners of a Metaphor
The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to the impact that the CoViD-19 pandemic had on people’s religious life globally. Such across-the-board response is investigated against the background of Peter Sloterdijk’s exemplary reinterpretation of the religious vertical impulse in terms of anthropotechnics and is found defective. A more nuanced and ambivalent account of secularization is offered in the end as a vi…
Metamorfosi naturali
Premessa
La città secolare
Michiel Meijer, Charles Taylor’s Doctrine of Strong Evaluation
Promoting autonomy through home adaptations. Appropriation of domestic spaces in Italy
While the person-environment relationship is one of the structuring frameworks of daily life in general, for disabled people this relationship is a decisive one. ADA is an action research project which assessed the person-environment relationship of people with severe disabilities and subsequently proposed home adaptations to improve their autonomy, well-being and quality of life. The article introduces the framework of ADA and its strategy to pe…
Essays in retrieval
The idea of a good life
Tourism in European heritage cities
Tourist carrying capacity
The Post-Secular City
The Post-Secular City" is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. "The Post-Secular City" examines the alleged shift from a "secular" to a "post-secular" dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization "theorem" (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the "de-constructors" and the "ma…
The Venice problem
Piasentin, U., Costa P. and Foot D. (1978) The Venice problem: an approach by urban modelling, Reg. Studies 12, 579–602. This paper looks at the problem of Venice and begins with an analysis of the problem over the last 20 years. It is not sufficient to look just at the Historical Centre, but rather one must consider the whole Venice Urban System. To analyse this urban structure, an urban modelling approach is used, namely the Garin-Lowry Model, …
Promoting autonomy through home adaptations. Appropriation of domestic spaces in Italy
While the person-environment relationship is one of the structuring frameworks of daily life in general, for disabled people this relationship is a decisive one. ADA is an action research project which assessed the person-environment relationship of people with severe disabilities and subsequently proposed home adaptations to improve their autonomy, well-being and quality of life. The article introduces the framework of ADA and its strategy to pe…
The Venice problem
Piasentin, U., Costa P. and Foot D. (1978) The Venice problem: an approach by urban modelling, Reg. Studies 12, 579–602. This paper looks at the problem of Venice and begins with an analysis of the problem over the last 20 years. It is not sufficient to look just at the Historical Centre, but rather one must consider the whole Venice Urban System. To analyse this urban structure, an urban modelling approach is used, namely the Garin-Lowry Model, …
Managing tourism carrying capacity of art cities
The search for a sustainable development (in our case sustainable tourism) inescapably comes across with the concept of (tourism) carrying capacity, i.e. with the idea of the existence and possible identification, for both macro and micro destinations, of a maximum number of visitors beyond which the costs of tourism growth more than offset its benefits
Tourist carrying capacity
The management of tourism in cities of art
One of the major changes recently noted in the evolution of world tourism demand seems to be represented by the shift from “sun and beach” holidays to more active and special interest ones. This trend will affect some destinations more than others. There will be losers and winners
The trip forecasting models
The TRIP ( T ou R ism I nternational P anel) Forecasting Models (1), the first regarding international tourist departures from each country of origin, the second international tourist flows to Italy and the third international departures from Italy, represent, through an appropriate mathematical and econometric analysis, the fixed effect approach of the panel data analysis, the economic process behind the foreign tourist's decision to holiday in …
Accessibility and mobility conditions, and tourist development
Southern Italy (2) is a multiform and atypical system in the Italian tourist economy. According to a general image, one of its main features is the extensiveness and quality of the region's natural resources, especially the coastal areas, attractions which traditionally make the macroregion known essentially as a destination for “sun&sea” holidays. In recent years, moreover, due to growing and widespread awareness for environmental quality and fo…
Tourism demand segmentation and consumption behaviour
The purpose of this article is to describe the characteristics and the consumption behaviour of tourists coming from different countries and choosing different holiday typologies (cultural, seaside, mountains, etc.), by evaluating their expenditure in terms of consumption functions and productive sectors. The analysis — which uses the results of the survey on tourist expenditure carried out in the Veneto region, with particular reference to inter…
Tourism in European heritage cities
La variabile sociologica nella valutazione degli effetti della progettazione architettonica
La valutazione post-occupativa (POE, Post-Occupancy Evaluation), č una pratica che studia gli spazi costruiti dopo che sono stati abitati, allo scopo di individuare lo scarto tra gli obiettivi inscritti nel progetto e le opportunitŕ e i significati effettivamente colti dai suoi abitanti. Dopo aver ricostruito la storia di questa pratica, indicato le sue fasi principali e i vari livelli a cui essa č in grado di produrre conoscenza, il saggio anali…
L'immagine mentale dell'area vasta. Le categorie di Lynch applicate alla percezione del paesaggio
Il saggio mostra l'applicabilitŕ delle categorie di Kevin Lynch alla scala dell'area vasta. In occasione di una ricerca sul rapporto tra abitanti e paesaggio nel complesso collinare del Montalbano, nella campagna toscana, gli autori ricostruiscono l'immagine mentale del luogo, mettendo in luce le molteplici articolazioni e le stratificazioni dell'identitŕ locale. Gli autori mostrano come alcuni elementi del programma di Kevin Lynch conservino la …
Aspetti sociali del risparmio energetico in ambito abitativo. Un modello teorico e un caso studio
Il saggio propone un modello teorico dei fattori sociali che intervengono nell'adozione di soluzioni tecnologiche orientate al risparmio energetico in ambito abitativo. Alcuni fattori sono direttamente legati alle caratteristiche dei residenti, altri attengono a campi anche molto distanti dagli scenari nei quale si attuano i loro comportamenti quotidiani. L'approfondimento sul caso Toscano č un'occasione per fare luce sulla complessitŕ delle rela…
Verso un nuovo spirito della critica
Realism, relativism and pluralism
In broad terms, realism, relativism and pluralism can be regarded as the theoretical articulations of the following insights. Realism embodies the sense that what is at stake in our beliefs is something serious, i.e. that there is a fact of the matter, independent from our desire, which is going to decide whether what we believe in is true or not. Relativism, on the other hand, incorporates the realization that our cognitive take on the world is …
The idea of a good life
The Language Animal
In my paper, I set The Language Animal against a broader picture of Charles Taylor’s intellectual trajectory. Sources of the Self (1989) left open three major questions: (a) the viability of religious moral sources in a ‘secular’ age; (b) the compatibility between a robust moral realism and a genealogical account of modern identity; and (c) the meaning and destiny of the so-called ‘linguistic turn.’ This is the framing topic of his last book. Alt…
Ricerca e progetto come innovazione sociale. Modelli di pratiche a confronto in tre casi studio
The essay reflects on the relationship between design and social research. Three case studies are discussed, and the practices of cultural mapping and co-design are used to exem- plify the possible continuity between empirical research and design. The three case studies are strategic actions coordinated by the authors in various contexts, both national (Altamura) and international (Malta; Palestinian Territories
Essays in retrieval
La città secolare
Michiel Meijer, Charles Taylor’s Doctrine of Strong Evaluation
Promoting autonomy through home adaptations. Appropriation of domestic spaces in Italy
While the person-environment relationship is one of the structuring frameworks of daily life in general, for disabled people this relationship is a decisive one. ADA is an action research project which assessed the person-environment relationship of people with severe disabilities and subsequently proposed home adaptations to improve their autonomy, well-being and quality of life. The article introduces the framework of ADA and its strategy to pe…
Prisoners of a Metaphor
The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to the impact that the CoViD-19 pandemic had on people’s religious life globally. Such across-the-board response is investigated against the background of Peter Sloterdijk’s exemplary reinterpretation of the religious vertical impulse in terms of anthropotechnics and is found defective. A more nuanced and ambivalent account of secularization is offered in the end as a vi…
Metamorfosi naturali
Premessa
Standing on the Edges of the New Paradigm
Toward the end of Faith as an option, Hans Joas suggested looking outside Europe to see what the future of Christianity may be in a world which is now fully globalized. "If we are to analyze religion in the present day", he claimed without hesitation, "it is vital to adopt a global, that is, non-Eurocentric perspective".1
Democracy Is Always Going to Be Hard”
This interview with the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor was designed and realized to celebrate his ninetieth birthday in November 2021. The interview touches on all the main themes of Taylor's oeuvre, from his view of philosophy to the inherent link between human intelligence and strong evaluations, from the Immanent Frame to postsecularity, from today's democratic crisis to the 1980s debate between liberals and communitarians, from Xi Jinpin…
Philosophy (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Humanities (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)