Humanities as Insurrection Against Everyday Life Volume 3 - Issue 5

Jorge Alberto López-Guzman*

• Anthropologist, Political Scientist, Specialist and Master in Government and Public Policies, PhD candidate in Anthropology. University of Cauca, Colombia

Received: March 17, 2021   Published: March 29, 2021

Corresponding author: Jorge Alberto López-Guzman, Anthropologist, Political Scientist, Specialist and Master in Government and Public Policies, University of Cauca, Colombia

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2021.03.000173

 

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If I could compare the effervescence with life that studying the humanities has caused me, I could do it with the greatest teaching I owe to my parents: the love of books.On some occasion, I was asked in the first class of a subject called Plato what is philosophy? –– What a suggestive and complex question–. I remember my answer: “philosophy is burning with questions.” Today I could say that getting involved in the humanities is burning in them, but how rewarding it is!

Editorial| My natural state is anguish|