Although forgotten, the books by Keyserling had great success in the 1920's and 1930's, they were best-sellers and read among intellectuals. In Brazil, to where the count traveled at 1929, Keyserling appears in texts by Oswald and Mario de Andrade, comments by Alceu Amoroso Lima and Lindolfo Collor, beside others. The theme of this work was the occidental decadence related to the multiple temporalities existing in the world. The slow orient, the European progress and the American primitivism composed an international harmony. This paper will focus the thinking of the count and its readers, focusing on the subject of the misunderstandings related to a world peace project based on an interpretation founded on exoticism, overall that ones which are related to a supposed south American identity.
historicity; americanism; Keyserling