La disputa de las Humanidades y la invención de la industria cultural en el liberalismo avanzado

Abstract

In this paper we develop a criticism against the conventional defence of Humanities in High Education. This discourse of defence is usually founded in three principles: the dualism between mind and body;the social useless of Humanities and the existence of a transhistorical human nature. These principles have been openly overthrown in current time. In the field of social sciences and the humanities, we see certainly the rise of a neonaturalism, but in a sense not deterministic and objectivist. Secondly, we take account of the social usefulness concerning humanistic disciplines. These studies are used to shape skills and personal dispositions, so they contribute to build subjectivities. Such subjectivities are today linked to a liberal advanced way of ruling, pointing to new ends: the brain self, the entrepreneurial self and the expressive self. Finally we analyze the rising of new techniques in the field of Humanities, new practices tightly connected with the ends of neoliberal governmentality and current entrepreneurial culture