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Abstract

My dissertation, Neohumanismo: una propuesta de regeneración ética y sociopolítica en el ensayo español del siglo XXI (Neohumanism: A Proposal for an Ethical and Sociopolitical Regeneration in the 21st-Century Spanish Essay), studies the writing of four Spanish authors: Javier Sádaba, Adela Cortina, Elizabeth Duval, and Jesús Mosterín. Through a close reading analysis of selected texts, I explore and establish the connection between the essayists’ ethical and political views and a new humanist thought. This thought is a revision and redefinition of what being human means, and a response to the problems of our neoliberal and capitalist society. More specifically, I show how these thinkers regenerate the concept of an ethical self along with its role in our society; a reconditioning that can be described as horizontal and interrelational, and that has already changed the Spanish socio-political practice of the XXI century.