Modern Love. Is there progress in love?

Modern Love: Is there progress in love?
17'30h - 18'30h: Lecture by Emanuele Coccia

Emanuele Coccia, philosopher and author of remarkable essays, will visit Santa Mònica to unfold his latest research topics and talk about home, love and progress.

His work, translated into a dozen languages, is recognised as one of the most original in contemporary thought, both for its prose and its philosophical approach with an innovative approach that links theories of the imagination and the nature of living beings.

Home, love and progress
19h - 20'15h: Talk between Emanuele Coccia, Isabel Valverde, Peter Wagner, Santiago Zabala and the audience.

"Love is lived, appreciated and celebrated at home. It is the domestic secret par excellence", says Emanuele Coccia to his recent essay Filosofía della casa. El spazio domestico i la felicità (Einaudi, 2021) (Philosophy of the home. Domestic space and happiness). Coccia argues that a "philosophy of the home" is needed because the four walls become the place where "we can be happy together with others".

In this second part of the session, Emanuele Coccia will talk about home, love and progress with Isabel Valverde, Peter Wagner and Santiago Zabala, members of the Santa Mònica Research Group, and the debate will be open to the public.

Activities promoted by the Santa Mònica Research Group (Isabel Valverde, Peter Wagner and Santiago Zabala) in the framework of the curatorial training programme (creating)Situations: participatory art and thought .

With the participation of Emanuele Coccia

Emanuele Coccia (Fermo, Italy, 1976) is a philosopher and professor at the École des Hautes Études a Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His work, translated into a dozen languages, is recognised as one of the most original in contemporary thought both for its prose and its philosophical approach with its innovative approach to the link between the theories of the imagination and the nature of living beings. Among her publications: Vida sensible (Marea, 2011), El bien de las cosas: la publicidad como discurso moral (Shangrila, 2015), La vida de las plantas (Miño y Dávila, 2017) (2016), Metamorfosis (Siruela, 2021), Filosofia della casa. Lo spazio domestico e la felicità (Einaudi, 2021).