The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
On Dentistry: a Mouthful of Memento Mori
Every spoken word was a pilgrim, in some sense, passing through the valley of the shadow of death.
Lauren Spohn ponders death from the dentist’s chair
Living with our Terminal Diagnosis
Contentment requires that one appreciate the good things in life.... We should view reality with a loving, contemplative gaze, as if we were looking at the Rowan Tree.
Xavier Symons reviews the film Living as an antidote to modern malaise
Eros, Thanatos, and Bloom
This interplay of death and eros produces a flight of words in Ulysses which signals our fundamental need to give birth to beauty—not simply in the body of another, but in eternity.
Daniel Fitzpatrick on love and death in Joyce’s writing
A Genealogy of Death
The happy skeletons smile, as if to say, “I am alive, I am well, and death is not the end.” For Jorge Portilla, like Socrates before him, a good and meaningful life requires the endorsement of life after death.
Brian Harding on philosophies of death from Greece to Mexico
Death with Dignity
We are not isolated individuals… We are social creatures dependent on one another. If our life has an enormous social element, might not our death likewise?
Jeffrey Wald considers death in Christopher Beha’s What Happened to Sophie Wilder
End without End: Mourning during the Coronavirus
For however emptied out a religious rite might appear, it still confirms that the unnamable experience of death has a place within the universe.
Donato Loia reflects on rituals of death in the modern world.