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Volume 117, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0002-5275
  • E-ISSN: 2352-1244

Abstract

Abstract

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 nihilistic theories of solitude and Nothingness, I argue that dementia can be seen as a similar experience: within the human but outside our usual conceptions thereof. Through this reinterpretation of dementia, this essay seeks to make it more human, less threatening and a possible gateway towards a broader understanding of what it means to be human.

© Arthur Meijer
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Keyword(s): Dementia; Infinity; Meaning; Nihilism; Solitude; Time

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