This essay aims to show that the relationships between the humanities, the university and education are produced through connections with art, the symbol, the metaphor and the virtual as scenarios of discourse and technique. A series of projects for humanization have been formulated through them, as can be seen in the philosophical proposals of Werner Jaeger, Enríque Rodo, Edward Said, Jacques Derrida and Lluis Duch. The plurality of these theoretical proposals will show up the effects of a perspective seen against the light which will interpret the relationships between the humanities and the university in the historical development of capitalism.
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humanism, education, university, capitalism, Paideia, Latin America, colonial ethos, East, Europe, deconstruction.