Jan Musil

In the context of the aestheticization and capitalization of happiness, health, success, and youth in the global mainstream culture, thanatographies––or, writing about death––have during the last half century embarked on the difficult task of bringing death, diminished with every possible medical innovation, back to our attention, and thereby showing the mourners’ new perspectives on loss and grieving. Following, among others, the phenomenological writings of Patočka, Merleau-Ponty and Waldenfels, Jan Musil aims to show how thanatographies articulate and deobjectify our experience of the inexpressible.