EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

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Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. and Carlos Alberto Sánchez  |  View Article  |

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THE GRUPO HIPERIÓN AND BEYOND: 

SOCIO-PSYCHOANALYTIC DYNAMICS OF LO MEXICANO

Sentient and mobile, the discourse of lo mexicano met the drumbeat of the times with turns to the social sciences. Sociological and psychoanalytic analyses emerged within the compass of el Hiperión and then took on a distinctive life of their own. The present article, an exercise in the history of ideas, anatomizes the force field of lo mexicano in the 1950s-1960s. As it charts developments in lo mexicano and locates Hiperión in their circuitry, my essay outlines some ways in which a genealogical approach may enhance understanding of mid-twentieth century Mexican philosophy.

 

STEPHANIE MERRIM​  |  View Article  |            

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LOS LABERINTOS DE LA LIBERTAD:

SOBRE UN PANFLETO CIVIL DE CARLOS PEREDA

Los laberintos son caminos por los que la mente humana se pierde fácilmente. El concepto de libertad es uno de esos laberintos. Este trabajo examina críticamente, en quince secciones, las tesis principales de libro Libertad, un panfleto civil (México: UNAM 2020), de Carlos Pereda. Ahí, el autor mexicano-uruguayo presenta una contribución original distinguiendo dos modelos para entender la libertad, es decir, el de la autenticidad y el de la autonomía. Pereda se decantará, no sin justipreciar la autenticidad, por el modelo de la libertad como autonomía históricamente construida. El planteamiento está expuesto, al menos así lo argumenta este ensayo, a lo que puede llamarse el dilema de la emancipación.

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EFRAÍN LAZOS OCHOA  |  View Article  |     

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THE DEBATE BETWEEN RAMOS AND URANGA:

FROM THE “FEELING OF INFERIORITY” TO THE CONDITION OF

“ONTOLOGICAL INSUFFICIENCY”

This essay recovers the debate between Samuel Ramos and Emilio Uranga which took place at the series of conferences “The Mexican in Search of the Mexican” in 1951. In that debate, Uranga aims to show that the “feeling of inferiority” which Ramos attributes to the Mexican character in fact corresponds to a condition of “ontological insufficiency.” According to Ramos, the “feeling of inferiority” emerges from the cultural imitation through which a young nation like Mexico aims to reach the cultural maturity of Europe. For Uranga, on the contrary, the “feeling of inferiority” corresponds to a condition of “ontological insufficiency” which means that, given our condition of “accidental existence,” human beings are unable to embody the “substantial existence” that we attribute to values. Thus, the sense of “ontological insufficiency” is the authentic way in which human beings relate to values and the “feeling of inferiority” emerges because Mexicans attribute a substantial existence to European culture through which we measure ourselves. This essay aims to show that Uranga’s analysis regarding the condition of “ontological insufficiency” represents an effort to liberate Mexicans from the inauthentic way in which we relate to European as well as to our own Mexican culture.

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JORGE MONTIEL |  In English |  En Español |

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TRANSLATION

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ANALYSIS OF A PROCESS: CHANUBTASEL-P’IJUBTASEL

MANUEL BOLOM PALE

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Translated by Anderw Lopez and Kayla Acevez   | View Article  |   

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BOOK REVIEW

 

REVIEW OF DISCOURSES OF THE ELDERS: THE AZTEC HUEHUETLATOLLI: A FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION

By Sebastian Purcell

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2023

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Reviewed by CAMILLA TOWNSEND   |  View Article  |   

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