RT Article
T1 The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first Century
JF Temenos
VO 47
IS 1
SP 77
OP 96
A1 Behar, Ruth 1956-
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1847099505
AB Tango artist Astor Piazzolla’s composition, ‘La muerte del ángel’, serves as inspiration for a few reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment in the 21st century. Piazzolla wrote the fugue as accompaniment to a play, ‘Tango del angel’, about an angel who tries to heal broken human spirits in Buenos Aires and ends up dying in a knife fight. Drawing on tango’s melancholy, longing, and hesitant hoping, I share stories from my travels where I engage with the struggle to sustain an ethnographic art that brings heart to the process of knowing the world.
K1 Ethnography
K1 Reflexivity
K1 tango
K1 Writing
DO 10.33356/temenos.4618