The humanities in the age of destruction

Abstract

Compared to the knowledge that allows domination of nature and economic returns, humanities seem irrelevant today. Wishing to satisfy this requirement, they have lost their way. Humanities inherited, from the Renaissance humanism a universal perspective, the reception of diversity, and overcoming the religious dogma; they boosted freedom, criticism and emancipation. Today, neoliberalism charges their ability to dissent. Universities pleased global corporatism forming masked antihumanistics with a blind jargon on the crises of our time: hunger, global warming.