Redecir lo humano.

This paper explores the phenomenon of the crisis of the humanities based on some ideas of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Rather than focusing on discussions of recent attacks on the humanities, the analysis addresses the crisis of the sense of the humanities as the main cause of its crisis. First, th...

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Autores:
Aguirre García, Juan Carlos
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Institución:
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional UPN
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.pedagogica.edu.co:20.500.12209/6447
Acceso en línea:
https://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/RCE/article/view/4652
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12209/6447
Palabra clave:
Ética
Hombre
Humanidades
Otro
Razón
Ethics
Man
Humanities
Other
Reason
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Summary:This paper explores the phenomenon of the crisis of the humanities based on some ideas of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Rather than focusing on discussions of recent attacks on the humanities, the analysis addresses the crisis of the sense of the humanities as the main cause of its crisis. First, the paper describes the dark nature of humankind and the human in the contemporaneity. Then, it shows the relationship that has been emerging, since modernity, between natural sciences and humanities. Finally, it devotes two sections to discuss the Levinasian alternative. The thesis supported here is that the sense of the humanities does not depend on the understanding of the Subject or his/her cultural expressions, but rather on the response to the Other’s call, which demands new ways to explain the human.