Towards a Hermeneutics on Ageing: Or What Gadamer Can Teach Us About Growing Old.
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https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jah.v0Y2015.53269Keywords:
ageing, hermeneuticsAbstract
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.References
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Ageing. (n.d). Dictionary.com. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ageing May 31, 2015.
Davey, N. (2006). Unquiet understanding: Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Davey, N. (2013). Unfinished worlds: Hermeneutics, aesthetics and Gadamer. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Gadamer, H.G. (1960/1989). Truth and method (2nd rev.ed., J. Weinsheimer & D.G. Marshall, Trans.) New York, NY: Continuum.
Grondin, J. (1994). Introduction to philosophical hermeneutics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Grondin, J. (2015). Keynote presentation at the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute. May 20-22, 2015. Halifax, NS, Canada.
Malibou, C. (2012). Ontology of the accident: An essay in destructive plasticity (C. Shread, Trans.). Cambridge, UK, Polity Press.
Moules, N.J., McCaffrey, G., Field, J.C., & Laing, C.M. (2015). Conducting hermeneutic research: From philosophy to practice. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Venturato. L. (2015, in press). Nurturing creativity and understanding in the care of frail older people. The Arts Collective. Accepted for publication January 2015.
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