Le edizioni Minuziano: il laboratorio estetico-civile della “scuola di Milano”.

The objective of this research is to demonstrate the value of philosophical reflection about art for the construction of an aesthetic conscience as a fundamental resource to form the functional training base for the development of civil conscience to active citizenship. The considered cultural story includes the philosophical environment of Milan between 1932 and 1944, in which the main protagonist is the most innovative thought of European philosophers, moved (by desire, will, commitment and determination of Antonio Banfi) in university classrooms and in publishing laboratories. The living material of this operation was born in the context of high-level not only philosophical, but also didactic, methodological and interdisciplinary, such as that of the civil aesthetics workshop of the Minuziano Editions directed by Luigi Rognoni (student of Antonio Banfi) between 1945 and 1950, analyzed in detail in this study, in “Aesthetics” and “Politics” publications. This publishing activity represents the aesthetic-philosophical paradigm, both on the methodological-interdisciplinary level, and on that of the selection and proposal of contents, for a training aimed at the development of critical thinking and the construction of an aware civil conscience for a peaceful coexistence, a renewed social life in which every individual is an active protagonist in their choices and, through dialogue and the exchange of knowledge and reflections, in sharing those of others. At the core of the research (Second Section), which is identified with the Minuziano Editions, which traces the training path leading from the aesthetic conscience to the civil conscience, are integrated the theoretical foundations of the initiative and the interdisciplinary exchanges (First Section), in support of the pragmatic character of this extraordinary activity, that has developed in a laboratory environment, through the texts of the classical and original paths of study and research (Third Section). Here, the reading of the classics (Shaftesbury, Addison, Hutcheson, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Husserl, Scheler, Geiger, Conrad and Simmel) and the reconstruction of the aesthetic debate take place through the reflection and the teaching of Antonio Banfi, following the lines and the trends (the aesthetic thought of Dewey) that were passionate about the great students of the "school of Milan" and that, in the same way, deeply, even today they care about us too.