Balance of a generation. Continuity of the intellectual self–legitimation strategies in the late production of Manuel Ugarte

Abstract

We emphasize the ugartean balance of the historic contribution of the Spanish–American modernism. The place that occupies the so called “Generation of Darío” in the intellectual history of Latin America is significant by its determining role in the building of the figure of the Latin–American intellectual. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the dynamic chartered by the continental modernization promoted the autonomization of the literary field. This fact produced a series of modifications of the practice of the intellectuals that operated as a condition of possibility of a speech that accentuated the expectations about the historical and political effectiveness of scientific, philosophical and literary writings.