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Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts: Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body

By Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann; Gesellschaft für Rechtsphilosophische Forschung , Münster

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2023
ISBN
9783839466803
DOI
10.1515/9783839466803
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1847822 bytes)
Series
Medical Humanities; 13
Pages
224\224
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 01:23:38

Description

While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives. In this original contribution, she studies the nexus of life stories, subjectivity, fragmentation, and fiction. The philosophical basis of this research is phenomenology from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, specifically that of Husserl and above all that of Merleau-Ponty. This work also draws on Proust's and Camus's literature as well as Beckett's dramaturgy.

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