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(2001) The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer.
The lived experience of doubling
Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenology of old age
Sarah Clark Miller
pp. 127-147
This essay demonstrates that Beauvoir "s La vieillesse is a phenomenological study of old age indebted to Husserl's phenomenology of the body. Beauvoir's depiction of the doubling in the lived experience of the elderly—a division between outsiders' awareness of the elderly's decline and the elderly's own inner understanding of old age—serves as a specific illustration of Beauvoir "s particular method of description and analysis.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_8
Full citation:
Clark Miller, S. (2001)., The lived experience of doubling: Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenology of old age, in L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 127-147.