Political conditions of the university and the new humanities. Latin American reformist and counter-reformist itineraries

Abstract

In this article, I set out to reflect 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 Universities based on laws, reforms, counter reforms and prescriptions, from the positivist configuration 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.