Abstract
This article proposes to explore the dynamics of the cultural universe of Argentina in the first half of the 20th century observing the circulation of different intellectual attitudes. This means analyzing, in parallel to the theoretical disputes between positivists and spiritualists and their institutional reverberations, the lifestyles that informed the theoretical disagreements. I begin with the emergence of a specific group of Argentine nationalist intellectuals that gains space through the radicalization of the critical discourse in the 1920s, in order to analyze the decline of the French reference - a great guide to the expectations of the Argentine literate elite at the turn of the century - and the emergence of German and Spanish references that enabled not only the dissemination of new ideas but also a new “sense of the game” for Argentine intellectuals.
Keywords:
Argentine history ; intellectual history ; intellectuals ; history of elites; Germany