Más allá del humanismo. Nuevo paradigma en las humanidades

Abstract

Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed a progressive questioning of traditional humanism, especially in the field of philosophy. What explains this paradoxical situation? How is it that within the humanities themselves, the venerable idea of humanitas has become suspect? This book of essays confronts these questions and others related, ultimately, to the crisis of humanism in contemporary thought. Indeed, it examines the reasons behind the recent emergence of anthropological perspectives that, contrary to the humanist tradition, advocate for displacing human beings from the central position they have traditionally occupied in the universe of human concerns. This volume thus seeks to understand the rise of a new paradigm of thought—for which the name "posthumanism" is merely indicative—in which a different worldview is at play, one that, apart from the anthropocentric and humanist tradition, departs from the usual opposition between the human and the animal, or between the human and the natural. A paradigm under construction that has the potential to profoundly redefine the object of study and the boundaries of the humanities in the 21st century.