Danse Macabre: Of the Dying and Death of Philosophers on Film {… and film as an (archival) afterlife of philosophy}
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: If philosophy’s age-old entanglement with death unravelled alongside modernity’s privatisation of dying, films featuring global philosophers appear to pick up this ancient ‘necromantic’ baton. By poetically compos(i)ting imaging-imaginings of real philosophers’ deaths and dying acts into a Danse Macabre this video essay expressively ponders philosophy’s entanglements with, and conditional/continual rebirths through, different media forms.
Source: Screenworks
Author: David Fleming
Institution: University of Stirling
Language: English
Topic: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414872465
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