On Personal Emancipation between Hermeneutics and Pragmatism

Abstract

Pedagogy today seems to be increasingly reduced to the bare question of its techniques and the pedagogical task to the objective of the development of concrete skills and competences, in response to the determined needs of the market and society. It is because of the configuration of such a framework that the return to the reading of Antonio Banfi’s reflections on the philosophy of education and pedagogy seems to convey a character of topicality and opportunity. This essay attempts to update Banfi’s conception by placing it in dialectic with hermeneutics and pragmatism according to a theoretical line that on the one hand focuses on the mediative function of critical hermeneutics, and on the other brings the question of the person back to the centre.