Aging as a Problem in Turn-of-the-Century Philosophy

• In Event: Fearing and Embracing Aging

Abstract

At the turn and in the early (pre-Stalinist) decades of the twentieth century, Russian thinkers and writers asked what it might mean to age well. This talk looks at aging as an abstract concept and as a subset of professional philosophical thinking. It draws on journal debates about aging and care in the sphere of practical and biological ethics, literary metaphysics, and socio-religious ideas.

Author

• Inessa Medzhibovskaya, The New School