Introducing a Handbook of Practical Wisdom for Our Times

At a time when the threat of total annihilation no longer seems to be an abstract possibility but the most imminent and real potentiality, it becomes all the more imperative to try again and again to foster and nurture those forms of communal life in which dialogue, conversation, phronesis, practical discourse and judgment are in need for being concretely embodied in our everyday practices. (Bernstein 1983: 229)