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TECHNO SCIENCE AND EDUCATION TRENDS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT OF NEOLIBERAL RATIONALITY OF IMPROVEMENT. RESEARCHING AND TEACHING: HUMANITIES IN NEED.
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The article considers the interrelation between technoscience and humanity in the contemporary university environment. Postmodern is seen as a communicative context and fundamental property of technology development. This problem is urgent because we always need some existential form of thinking, to understand what we are performing. In other words, technological and science exaltation should always “kept cold”, by examining, observing, thinking, and acting in consideration of this analysis. The authors point out the significance of teaching the Humanist conception for new engineers and provide the analysis of theoretical and practical aspects. Lyotard, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Montaigne works act as a methodological base of the research. In practice, it is given the description of French and Russian universities experience in the process of “human sciences” formation. The article concludes that “Human” is not natural, but a cultural process, that has to be protected, and can be studied, questioned. Life and technics should not be simply opposed but linked to the same essential problem: what do we have to do? How do we have to live? And only “we” - in our personal investigations, connected with our friend, our families, our relatives - have the answer. This answer cannot be written somewhere. From the engineer to the firm worker, from the student to the teacher, from the child to the adult, everyone has to create it, and for that, we first have to feel it.
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