ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the most outstanding elements of Jaime Torres Bodet’s thought, life and transnational movements, with the aim to reconstruct its participation in an international process of renegotiation of some ideas of education, masculinities, lettered culture, and the role of male intellectuals. In this confluence he constructs the possibility of a “new humanism” under a new order of global culture during the first half of the 20th Century and after the Second World War II. This biographical journey is undertaken on the figure of Torres Bodet as an educator “between worlds” who performed transnational encounters as a “cultural mediator” and established relations with outstanding names, texts, groups, ideas and international associations. The text is organized by three remarkable moments of Bodet’s biography: first youth, second youth and adulthood. These include his period of cultural gestation, professionalization of a public figure and its transnational movement. Finally, it is considered that a reading of this type can throw light on how changes are made in the sex/gender systems, and there, the role of what we called “male pedagogies”; that is: how “cultural mediators” built the transnational definitions of Modern life characters.
