Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Alice Miller Cotter

Mark Morris's choreographic depiction of absence in Socrates (2010), set to Erik Satie's austere musical response to Plato's retelling of Socrates's death, poses important questions about the nature of Morris's expressive gesture – its origins, proceedings, and implications. In this essay, I examine the technical inner workings of the text, music, and dance and argue that Morris provides a frame for depicting loss that can help articulate something fundamental about Plato's text and Satie's score. If the notion of dance invites us to listen to the text and music in a different way, it also encourages us to reconsider not only the interrelations between text, music, and dance but also how expressions of death and dying play out in contemporary culture through Morris's nearly thirty-year study of Plato's text and Satie's score.

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Susan Anthony Salladay

In the past few years there has been evidence of a greatly increased public and professional interest in issues surrounding death and dying. One such area of interest, the psychomatic experiences reported as having occurred in near-death situations before resuscitation, offers many speculative considerations for philosophical psychology. These reported exosomatic experiences have many elements in common with those reported in altered states of consciousness. The vivid out-of-the-body imagery in such experiences raises potential questions concerning the specialization and evolutionary-developmental structuring of consciousness, the nature of hallucinations, and the significance of deep conceptual roots of dualism within contemporary culture. Such questions take on more than theoretical importance when ethical questions about rights and resuscitation are raised.


2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Janet Ferrari Wanseele ◽  
Michael Hviid Jacobsen

I denne artikel beskrives de senere års forandringer i dele af den danske døds- og mindekultur med fokus på, hvorledes den enten adskiller sig fra eller mere skal ses som en forlængelse af den i samfundsforskningen ofte fremhævede, fortrængte og tabuiserede dødskultur fra det 20. århundrede. Gennem artiklen diskuterer og illustrerer forfatterne mange af nutidens forandringer gennem en række nedslag i form af et fokus på omsorgen for den døende, individualiseringen af institutionelle og professionelle praksisser, personliggørelsen af ritualer og ceremonier, udfordringen af traditioner og konventioner og den ændrede betydning af kirkegården og mindekulturen. Formålet med artiklen er således at beskrive og dokumentere nogle af de mest centrale ændringer i vores samfunds dødskultur som et spejlbillede på mange af de øvrige samfundsforandringer, der udspiller sig. Derudover ønsker forfatterne at anspore til debat om, hvorvidt den udbredte postmoderniseringstese om valgfrihed, fleksibilitet og individualisering inden for dødsområdet kan underbygges, eller om den skal suppleres med en senmoderniseringstese, der har fokus på institutionel kontrol og inerti. Søgeord: Senmoderne død, postmoderne død, institutioner, ritualer, mindekultur, professionalisering. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Janet Ferrari Wanseele and Michael Hviid Jacobsen: ”I did It My Way”? – A Sociological Contemporary Diagnosis of Late Modern/Post Modern Death This article describes some of the major changes taking place in the contemporary culture of death, dying and bereavement in Denmark. It does so by analysing how these may be contrasted with or seen as a continuation of the often advanced thesis of a death-denying and death-taboo culture of the 20th century. The authors illustrate many of the changes through analysis of selected topics such as the care of the dying, the individualization of institutional and professional practice, the personalized content of rituals and ceremonies, the challenge to traditions and conventions and the changing mentality regarding resting place and memorial culture. The purpose of the article is to describe and document some of the major shifts in death and dying as a corollary to contemporary changes within the culture at large. In addition the authors speculate as to whether the current popularity of the thesis of a postmodernization of death and dying can be substantiated or whether it needs to be supplemented by a late modern thesis concerned with institutional control and inertia. Key words: Late modern death, postmodern death, institutions, rituals, memorial culture, professionalization.


Author(s):  
Christoph Klimmt

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.


1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 914-914
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
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2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Barber ◽  
Charity Plaxton-Hennings ◽  
Holli M. H. Eaton ◽  
Sheryn T. Scott
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2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
M. Towsley M. Towsley Cook ◽  
A. A. Young
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