El tema de la cultura en el pensamiento latinoamericano: la construcción de la identidad y la autenticidad

Abstract

This research article analyzes, whit a qualitative methodology, ideas of some thinkers about the place, the values and problems of identity and authenticity of Latin American culture, in its dialectical correlation between the specific nature of this and universal culture. The objective is underlining that this subject is not a merely theoretical problem, but eminently practical, because of its analysis depend on the different attitudes that are assumed in the improvement of the institutions and mechanisms of power that have different dominated the Latin American peoples.