Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1994
Journal / Book Title
Analytic Teaching
Abstract
Those of us who have experienced the joy and terror of the intensive formation of a philosophical community of inquiry (COI) over an extended period, understand intuitively that it is a process of development which has certain characteristic structures and patterns. These can be glossed in a number of ways, all of which will be metaphors, if only because any given moment in the life of the COI is an instant of vertiginous freedom. The five structural dimensions of the COI which I am identifying are gesture, language, mind, love, and interest. I want to call them "communities" because each of them is the expression of a communicative, interpretive process, converging on a common body of signs. Each is involved in a developmental process of change in which every member is determinative in some way of the group as a whole, yet the whole has an emergent character that transcends any one individual.
Book Publisher
Viterbo University
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Kennedy, David K., "(1994) The Five Communities" (1994). Collected Papers of David Kennedy. 20.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/dkennedy/20
Published Citation
Kennedy, David (1994) The Five Communities. Analytic Teaching 15(1): 3-16. URL = https://journal.viterbo.edu/index.php/at/article/view/608.