Abstract

AGUIRRE GARCIA, Juan Carlos. Resaying the Human. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2017, n.72, pp.177-197. ISSN 0120-3916.

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.

Keywords : Ethics; man; humanities; Other; reason.

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