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

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.

Keywords

• ageing
• hermeneutics