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

Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 2015 (1) (2015)
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Abstract

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.

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Truth and Method.H. G. Gadamer - 1975 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (4):487-490.

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