Others in My Aging (Confronting de Beauvoir, Malabou, and Heidegger to Make Sense of Aging)
Others in My Aging (Confronting de Beauvoir, Malabou, and Heidegger to Make Sense of Aging)

Summary/Abstract: After a critical analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s and Catherine Malabou’s accounts of aging, the paper offers an alternative to them. In contrast to de Beau-voir and Malabou, it explores the actual share of other beings, both human and non-human, in one’s aging. The paper employs the Heideggerian ontological frame-work and his concepts of “bodying” and gesture to argue that changes induced by others do not damage or contaminate one’s being but allow the disclosure of some-one’s particularity in its undefi nable character

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