Living in a temporal perspective
aging between metric and narrative time
pp. 113-127
in: Mark Schweda, Michael Coors, Claudia Bozzaro (eds), Aging and human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2020Abstract
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.