Jaime Torres Bodet and the Intellectual/International Cooperation of Postwar
Jaime Torres Bodet and the Intellectual/International Cooperation of Postwar

Summary/Abstract: History of UNESCO and particularly of his early life, has been insufficiently unexplored.In this sense, the article studied the ideas of the second Director or this organization, the MexicanJaime Torres Bodet, during the 1940s and early 1950s. Specifically, it try to explain how the termIntellectual Cooperation is being replaced by International Cooperation and why this change wasrelated to a new meaning of education. For this reason, it is emphasized a perspective or continuityrather than a brake between the new organization and his predecesor. This means, support theperspective which states that the early beginnings of UNESCO were made under assumptions ofIntellectual Cooperation. Then, to understand the history of the organization of the early 40's it isneeded to understand the role of its predecessors and ideas on “cultural internationalism”. To makethis work, we use as a primary source documentary the official publication of the organism, ElCorreo, and the memories of Torres Bodet.

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