6 LA LLORONA

One wonders if Paz had been thinking of Heidegger at all.

But Arendt had proposed Natality as the definitive characteristic, Natality and Plurality for Social Creatures rather than the Unique Death of the Private Individual. 

But that’s neither here nor there. (though It IS interesting to see how death and life are treated by these thinkers—at least two “public intellectuals”—of the same century. Diagnoses and prescriptions around the MODERN human condiiton). 

Don Paz’s chapters so far have generally included some sort of comparison section where the overlying theme—here, death—is treated in a Mexican framework, and then differentiated from Euro-American/European/American contexts. No surprise—I can always feel more at home with his remarks on the latter; how to work with his explications of Mexicanness (because I am in a class that requires active engagement with this) remains a question for me. One can’t sort of insert the comfortable rationalizing distance of academia and scholarship between the material and oneself, one’s comprehension of it and relation to it. 

I haven't said anything directly about death, or this tearing song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvtdCOIdWA (one, of course, of many versions...)
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