José Martí: for a Latin American culture of nature

Abstract

The author presents the ideas of Martí about nature, which are part of the broader universe of concerns, interests and readings he shared with a number of young intellectuals of the region that perceived themselves as modern, by a combination of liberals in their ideology, democrats in the political, and patriotic culturallywise. He claims that Martí offers three contributions of special interest to a history of the environment as a problem in our culture: observations on the interactions between human history and natural history, his reading of authors of modern Anglo-Saxon cultural environment, and finally his incorporation of the natural realm to the field of politics.