ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an argument about the global nature of the humanities (especially philosophy, history, and cultural and literary criticism) during the interwar period by examining two representative examples of the era as well as the interaction between them: the discourse of crisis revolving around the “problem of culture” in Europe and the formation of new forms of cultural and philosophical universalism in Latin America. These two instances of humanistic intellectual production illuminate the existence of historical and cultural dynamics beyond Eurocentrism and suggest different historical periodizations for global history.
