Towards a Hermeneutics on Ageing: Or What Gadamer Can Teach Us About Growing Old.

Ageing is one of life’s most pervasive shared experiences, and one that is imbued with social, cultural and bio-medical meaning. This paper begins a conversation on what hermeneutics, and in particular, the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer, can add to contemporary understandings of ageing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lorraine Venturato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Calgary 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Applied Hermeneutics
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Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/53269