AUGUSTO SALAZAR BONDY Y LA DEPENDENCIA ECONÓMICA DE LA CULTURA

Abstract

This research article underlining with a methodological qualitative per-spective the commitment that was registered in Latin America, at the end of the sixties, among several intellectuals for the construction of original conceptual elaborations: philosophical (Philosophy of Liberation), theo-logical (Liberation Theology), economic (Theory of Dependence). The first two elaborations can only be understood in relation to economy; or rather, in a relationship based on economic dependence. Among these intellectuals, the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy, at the end of the sixties, denounced the inauthentic character of the Latin American culture, in general, and the Peruvian culture in particular. According to him this authenticity was due to the relationship of economic dependence in which the Latin American countries were forced to live.