La città secolare: il sogno effimero di sentirsi a casa nel disincanto

Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Paolo Costa
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/66 Language Italian
Pages 8 P. 9-16 File size 56 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2019-066002
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

It was only in the modern age that the contrast between the urban and the rural lifestyle ended up being understood in terms of the linear evolution from a less to a more civilized stage of the human kind. In particular, the development of a detached and blasé attitude towards the world and others has been regarded since then as an essential element of such refinement of human manners. In the essay, the connection between detachment, disenchantment and urban mentality is discussed in the light of the fleeting success of the concept of the «secular city» and of how the latter did not survive the impact of the recent critique of the standard secularization thesis.

Keywords: Secular city, urbanization, rurality, rurbanism, religion, disenchantment of the world.

Paolo Costa, La città secolare: il sogno effimero di sentirsi a casa nel disincanto in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 66/2019, pp 9-16, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2019-066002