Published: 2024-06-21

On the Indispensability of the Humanities in the Instrumentalised World. Humanities as a Project of Shaping Sensitivity

Magdalena Szpunar Logo ORCID
Section: syntheses - reflections- (over)views
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14752

Abstract

In the text, the humanities are understood as the only realistic counterbalance, but also resistance to the dominance of instrumental mind. Devaluation and marginalization of the humanities herald cultural regression and cultural autism of individuals. The humanities are treated as an important project for the formation of sensitivity, social integration, but also emancipation, the creation of a common universe that protects society from atomization. The humanities makes us realize that despite its focus on pragmatism and efficiency, the most important thing always is and has to be the human being. Although it can sometimes be inconclusive, although it leaves many things open, uncompleted, this is where its strength lies, breaking us out of certainties, breaking the hegemonic discourse of what is oppressive, speaking up for the human being

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Szpunar, M. (2024). On the Indispensability of the Humanities in the Instrumentalised World. Humanities as a Project of Shaping Sensitivity. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (48), 11–25. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14752

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No. 48 (2024)
Published: 2024-08-23


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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