Condiciones políticas de la universidad y las nuevas humanidades. Itinerarios latinoamericanos reformistas y contrarreformistas

Abstract

: In this article, I set out to refl ect on the University and its current political conditions. To carry out this task, I will delve into its modern and contemporary contexts, into the principles that, from the Humanities, defend its autonomy vis-à-vis the market, as well as into the sexism of knowledge and its language. Within the Latin American context, I consider some paradigmatic moments in the itinerary of Universi-ties based on laws, reforms, counter reforms and prescriptions, from the positivist confi guration to neoliberalism. Likewise, to counteract the colonial and sexist condition of knowledge, I take into consideration some of the proposals of the new humanities that aim to expand the democratization of knowledge.