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 spiritualities. He is the Italian translator of works by H. Arendt, C. Taylor, C. Darwin, and others. Among his books: La ragione e i suoi eccessi (Milan 2014); The Post–Secular City (Paderborn 2022; or. ed. Brescia 2019); L’arte dell’essenziale (Udine 2023).