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L'idea di comunità è centrale nel dibattito filosofico recente. In molteplici percorsi di indagine, le comunità compaiono come fonti di discorsi che veicolano significati, come contesti di pratica sociale e come strutture di autorità. La Philosophy for Communities, essendo una strategia di comprensione, pratica e trasformazione, stimola interazioni fra tutte queste dimensioni., The idea of community has been central in the recent philosophical debate. In several lines of inquiry, communities appear as either sources of meaningful discourses, contexts of practices and structures of authority. As a strategy of understanding, practice, and transformation, Philosophy for Communities stimulates interactions between all these dimensions.

This book deals with the relevance of community-based philosophical practices to individual and social empowerment. The authors analyze if it is possible for the inclusive dialogue between people of diverse backgrounds in informal adult education to benefit from the community practice of philosophy. They discuss if the latter can offer a contribution to individual, community and social empowerment. They make use of the dialogical methodology linked to M. Lipman and A.M. Sharp’s «Philosophy for Children». The book aims at achieving a critical lens for the analysis and assessment of community practices and for envisioning further possibilities of philosophical inquiry.

Is it possible for the inclusive dialogue between people of diverse backgrounds in informal adult education to benefit from the community practice of philosophy? Can the latter offer a contribution to individual, community and social empowerment? These are the questions in the light of which the team of the project “Philosophy and Community Practices” carried out its activities, making use of the dialogical methodology linked to M. Lipman and A.M. Sharp’s “Philosophy for Children”. Such educational methodology was both proposed as a practical activity to the project’s participants and theoretically studied by the research team. The book presents the outcomes of this project, which aimed at achieving a critical lens for the analysis and assessment of community practices and for envisioning further possibilities of philosophical inquiry.

L'idea di comunità è centrale nel dibattito filosofico recente. In molteplici percorsi di indagine, le comunità compaiono come fonti di discorsi che veicolano significati, come contesti di pratica sociale e come strutture di autorità. La Philosophy for Communities, essendo una strategia di comprensione, pratica e trasformazione, stimola interazioni fra tutte queste dimensioni., The idea of community has been central in the recent philosophical debate. In several lines of inquiry, communities appear as either sources of meaningful discourses, contexts of practices and structures of authority. As a strategy of understanding, practice, and transformation, Philosophy for Communities stimulates interactions between all these dimensions.