Modernidades americanas

Una mirada al campo intelectual

Resumen

This article addressed, in a general way, the figure of the intellectual in the
Latin-American modernity and the role that they played from the
independence revolutions, through the formation of the national States, until
the first decades of the twentieth century. I am interested in explaining about
their formations, discussions, concerns and vicissitudes, and how these were
shared by their Western counterparts, but with some particularities that
distinguish them from the latter. From that perspective, I propose to link the
intellectual trends in Latin-America with which dominated in the Caribbean
to leave established their common places and their differences. Emphasis is
placed on the widespread concern that lettered has in matters such as the
nation, identity and the crisis, especially at the beginning of the twentieth
century.