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Abstract Ageing with Rousseau This contribution considers ageing from the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it chooses as its starting point Émile ou de l’éducation and appeals to Rousseau’s last text Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire. For Rousseau, ageing is not an afterthought in human life, but the starting point par excellence for understanding the human subject. Rousseau’s strict division between nature and cul Read More

Abstract Seas of Time: Dementia as an Experience of Nihilism Common concepts of our experience of time are unsuited for use in cases of dementia. While they form the foundation of many theories of meaning and experience, they leave us in the dark when this meaning seems lost. In this essay, an alternative to our phenomenological theories of time is set out in order to explore the experience of dementia. Using nihili Read More

Abstract The good life here and now This paper explores the nature and significance of the temporal character of human existence. I propose a contemporary ethics of time, driven by a sense of discontent about ‘the dominance of the present.’ This dominance conceals various forms of alienation. The paper consists of three parts. In the first part, I discuss four perspectives on time: natural time, clock time, inner-worldly Read More

Abstract Meaningful ageing. On the grey area between ageing and life in society. In the light of increasing appeals to consider meaningful ageing as a societal rather than a personal issue, both in public discourse and in academia, this paper discusses how De Beauvoir recasts life in society through the prism of ageing. I argue that De Beauvoir herewith provides an important corrective to tendencies to ‘under-socialize’ or ‘ov Read More