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The thoughts in this book attempt to contribute to the construction of a new humanity. They light upon the possibility of a New World in which dignity can shape new ways of establishing human bonds. This invites us to think of ourselves as human, precisely when we imagine that we have entered the knowledge society, because we belong, by chance, to the privileged section of the world population with access to certain information technologies. The expression, a New World, in the title of this book, maintains the semantic richness implied in the name of a continent, namely, the need of a new planetary meaning of what it means to be human something which is yet to be fulfilled. The historical responses to the challenges brought about by the arrival on the scene of a New World have not only revealed an inadequate sense of meaning but have also deepened the dystopic aspects or the shadows of the instrumental reason that had encouraged building bridges between Europe and America. Today, that instrumental reason, devoid of illusion and the hope of finding an Eden, is incapable of providing answers for humankind facing the crisis of ontological identity: the human species. The New Continent, now opening before our conscience, is no longer America, but the Planet. In other words, this New Continent upon which we have stumbled is a humanity which has lost the human meaning of events. Hence, we propose new ways of interaction between people and peoples, imagining a logic of relationship capable of surmounting the antinomies of instrumental reason in all the realms of human life and its philosophical and scientific theoretical legitimatizations. This is a modest attempt at times prophetic, insightful and even contradictory. It is, namely, to build a new rationality capable of discerning alternative theoretical and practical paths, with the same radical dispositions as the paradigm shifts in current