Notes on the Latin America Diversity. An Essay

This essay analyzes and converses with the work "Notes on Latin American Intelligentsia" by Alfonso Reyes. In it, I develop an approach to Reyes' main contributions, as well as to questions raised by the author regarding the value and the work of the Latin American intelli-gentsia, relating this approach to the contemporaneity of diversity, the academy, the culture and society of Our America. The work emerges as part of the work al the Master's in Latin American Studies Programme, at the Institute of Latin American Studies, of the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (National University of Costa Rica), in addressing the Latin-Americanist thinking, along with contemporary large intellectual proposals of Nuestra America (Our-America).