The possibility of new humanities is defended in this project, assuming from the outset that sciences and their activities have generated very influential cultural forms in contemporary society and its continuous transformations. It is not a completely new proposal and various interesting precedents could be mentioned. In fact, the entire process relies on traditions with a valuable although sometimes somewhat heterodox history. The history of science and sciences, Science Technology and Society Studies, have been fruitful endeavours to study the cultural role of science. However, in their development they themselves have also had to become disciplines, the same as can be seen in all the old humanities. Subject to negotiations comparable to those of the discipline being studied, when trying to increase their influence on sciences they tended to search for exclusively sociological processes of legitimacy. As happened with the old humanities, they believed that in this way they would find themselves a prestigious place as a science, but what in fact happened is that knowledge became balkanised, as happened with history, philosophy, art, or language studies... endeavouring to be like the sciences, they ended up being more like techniques or craftsmanship. The points of contact and spaces for negotiation between knowledge have been renounced too frivolously. The supposed unity of perspective which was the basis of humanities became dissolved in the process.   

The new humanities, on the other hand, endeavour to recognise the value of these spaces for negotiation built by the influence of problems arising from the dynamics of sciences. The purpose of the scientific programme of this project is to contribute to the establishing of new conceptual tools for the diagnosis, interpretation and organisation of the result of this eruption of the sciences in our culture, something which has not been done from a humanities standpoint given that the connection between art, philosophy, history, literature, anthropology and sciences, between the continuous knowledge generated by the sciences, including social sciences, and their impact on all areas of culture have not been taken into account. The project aims to get rid of the barriers that exist between the so called sciences and the so called humanities by integrating both in analysis and research where scientific knowledge and practice are the operators of scientific thought and social and cultural thought.