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8 months ago in Medical Humanities , Philosophy By Kushi Gupta
The Last Act: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives on Suicide
 For a project on the representation of suicide, which philosophers or critics have written the most insightful analyses, either in literature or film?
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By Virat Answered 2 months ago
Several foundational thinkers have tackled this. Start with Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, which frames suicide as the fundamental philosophical problem. Emile Durkheim's Suicide provides the classic sociological study. For a psychological and literary angle, Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast is essential. In film theory, scholars like John Orr and Steven Dillon have written extensively on the aesthetics, ethics, and narrative function of suicide in cinema, analyzing its representational power and impact on the viewer.
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