The baroque ethos as a platform for overcoming modernity

Abstract

We can understand Modernity as a historical period of humanity, marked by a civilizing process that began to emerge in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century. A civilizing process that imposes reason as the source of universal and unquestionable truths and as a means of resolving all human problems. The consequences of this figure of the world are imposed throughout the length and breadth of the planet, generating diverse reactions, among them the rebellion of the baroque ethos. But Modernity carries within itself vast contradictions that are incongruous in our contemporary reality, so the need to deconstruct and reconstruct our figure of the world arises, so here it will be proposed that this baroque ethos can be an ideal starting point for such a process of deconstruction and reconstruction.