University for coexistence

Abstract

Universities can be distinguished from one another according to the way in which they conceive knowledge, as Lyotard said in his book The Postmodern Condition. This can be so, if we understand the university as memory, profession, research and coexistence, and only in this way of assuming it can we identify some keys to articulate the challenges posed by the so-called information society, orchestrated mainly by the communications networks that make possible countless flows throughout the world, particularly those of marketing. On the other hand, in the educational proposal of any university we can identify the type of society it intends to create. The spectrum ranges from a society based on competition to one organized according to solidarity-based schemes of social participation: the former associated with technological development to the extreme; the latter identified with the possible harmony of global ecosystems.