¿Educación? ¡Por Dios! Arendt, Heidegger y la verdad. O de por qué la crisis no desvela a nadie

Abstract

Is there really a human crisis? If true and perhaps it is not -, what would that crisis consist of? That is, what would be the hidden meaning behind words like "human", "human being", "humanity" and many others, similar? The so-called crisis of humanism is a fact, but for contemporary Westerners "isms" are past issues and thus, either the crisis is merely a specialized academic issue or, simply, there is no such crisis. However, the humanities, in our time, have been left over. Maybe, they always were. Not in vain, Foucault approximates (chronologically speaking) the formation of those discursive practices known generically under the names of social and human sciences, with the event called by him "the death of man", as if, paradoxically, the sciences had been born just when their object left to exist. Now, humanism, conceived as a "club of readers," as Sloterdijk does, accounts for an authentic, real historical event. There really was a canonical reading that for more than two thousand years nourished certain human beings. There are innumerable testimonies of the historicity and facticity of reading as a practice of subjectivation. Will there be, after all, an essential relationship between humanism, crisis and word?