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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2020

Pages: 113-127

ISBN (Hardback): 9783030250966

Full citation:

Jan Baars, "Living in a temporal perspective", in: Aging and human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2020

Living in a temporal perspective

aging between metric and narrative time

Jan Baars

pp. 113-127

in: Mark Schweda, Michael Coors, Claudia Bozzaro (eds), Aging and human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2020

Abstract

Aging and time are interconnected because aging is basically living seen in a temporal perspective. This makes "time" an important concept in trying to explain aging. Throughout the history of thinking about time, we can trace a dichotomy between metric time and lived time. More attention for temporal resources of narrative may, first, help to uncover implicit narratives that obstruct further explanatory research into certain phenomena of aging. Second, narrative may help to integrate scientific explanations of aging as part of meaningful approaches to aging, bridging the gap between metric time and lived time.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2020

Pages: 113-127

ISBN (Hardback): 9783030250966

Full citation:

Jan Baars, "Living in a temporal perspective", in: Aging and human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2020