The Great Tree of Pagan Superstition, 2020, video

In the mid eighteenth-century, pious Lutheran Johan Jacob Brucker founded the modern discipline of philosophy through a writing of its history^[1]. Yet alongside Brucker’s (now familiar) history of philosophy, is another history - of what philosophy is not. An older (now forgotten) narrative, in which Brucker re-brands ‘paganism’ as mere irrational foolishness^[2].