Humanities Education in the Times of Expanding Use of Digital Technology

Abstract

The paper addresses the current situation in humanities education in the context of the domination of new technologies and, in particular, promising opportunities and real risks digitalization processes. The authors emphasize the importance of the crucial differentiation between knowledge and thinking. The focus is on the nature of education as irreducible merely to transmitting the existing disciplinary knowledge in humanities and social sciences. Expanding the scope of anonymity in public space, when the authority of a philosophical statement is lost, presupposes a clarification of the ethical and academic criteria of scientific and educational activities. There is a necessity to challenge and overcome the tradition of relying on principles of thinking developed in the European intellectual tradition and perceived in the 20th century as contributing to a deep crisis. The new approach to thinking demands the departure from the conventional perception of language, the author argues un the paper.