Ateneo de la Juventud and "Amauta" magazine: Two collective agents in Spanish American intellectual consolidation

Abstract

I am interested in searching the way followed by two collective proyects that worked around the specialization in arts and humanities in Spanish American thought: The Ateneo de la Juventud (1906-1914) in Mexico and Amauta magazine (1926-1930) in Peru. These colectivities pronounced and opposed their ideas in front of positivism and oligarchy that poured our region’s thought and our education models in the early Twentieth Century. Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes y José Carlos Mariátegui leaded and participated in these projects, and by means of their theoretical and criticism proposals they helped to hold the field of Spanish American Literary Studies as an expression of our autonomous thought.