Self-criticism as an ethical-political challenge of resistance in contemporaneity

Abstract

Focusing particularly on the territory of education, this article addresses the attacks that have been made against humanities and the need for self-criticism as an ethical exercise of co-responsibility against the wear and tear of the Left. Considering as fictions of contemporaneity the actions based on a neoconservative perspective in tune with a neoliberal viewpoint that oftentimes is updated in the form of laws, it points to initiatives that could oppose such non-democratic formulations. The concept of humanities is revisited considering its changes over time, in an attempt to explain how it poses a threat to the functioning of financial capitalism. Finally, alongside actions that take place in a macro dimension, which are necessary, but insufficient to ensure a democratic perspective, it proposes a reflection upon the micropolitical plan, with emphasis on school practices of resistance that are not merely reactive.