"Old age is not exactly a time of life that most of us welcome, although globally speaking it is a privilege to reach it. In Western societies, the shocked realisation that we are growing old often fills us with alarm and even terror. As Simone de Beauvoir writes in her magisterial study of the topic, La vieillesse (1970) – translated in the UK as Old Age, and in the US as The Coming of Age (1972) – old age arouses a visceral aversion, often a ‘biological repugnance’. Many attempt to push it as far away as possible, denying that it will ever happen, even though we know it already dwells within us...." Read more on Aeon.
We are pleased to share the new fascinating and necessary essay by two of our members, Kate Kirkpatrick and Sonia Kruks.
"Old age is not exactly a time of life that most of us welcome, although globally speaking it is a privilege to reach it. In Western societies, the shocked realisation that we are growing old often fills us with alarm and even terror. As Simone de Beauvoir writes in her magisterial study of the topic, La vieillesse (1970) – translated in the UK as Old Age, and in the US as The Coming of Age (1972) – old age arouses a visceral aversion, often a ‘biological repugnance’. Many attempt to push it as far away as possible, denying that it will ever happen, even though we know it already dwells within us...." Read more on Aeon.
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"La publication d’une partie des actes du forum Penser avec Simone de Beauvoir aujourd’hui, dans les Cahiers Sens Public,arrive à point nommé puisque, depuis 2018, nous sommes entré·es dans une dynamique de commémorations non seulement autour de Simone de Beauvoir (110 ans de sa naissance en 2018, 70 ans du Deuxième Sexe en 2019) mais aussi autour du MLF dont nous célébrons en 2020 les 50 ans. Les deux volumes que publient les Cahiers Sens Public, intitulés « Avec Simone de Beauvoir », ne doivent pas se lire seulement comme un nouvel hommage/femmage à la figure beauvoirienne mais plutôt comme une invitation à (re)penser l’articulation de deux champs : celui des études beauvoiriennes et celui des études sur la deuxième vague féministe." Par Marine Rouch. Lire la suite.
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