... of death, or to an adequate conceptualisation of finitude. Responding to these absences, in this paper I argue for the importance of the notion of finitude within the history and philosophy of geographical thought. Situating finitude initially in the context of the work of ... to better grasp the sense and genealogy of finitude, I turn to the work of Martin Heidegger, ... demonstrate the intimate relations between spatiality, death, and finitude. At the same time, their writings are critically ... most important aspect of the conceptual history of finitude: the way in which it has been articulated ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2011 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
In developmental theory, awareness of finitude is held to initiate processes of disengagement, self-focusing, and life-review. Age has been assumed to be inversely related to awareness of finitude, and employed in testing these conceptions. Rather then ... a simple inverse function of age, awareness of finitude is an estimate based on social-comparison processes. ... substitute age as a measure of awareness of finitude. Selected aspects of reminiscence are examined in relation to awareness of finitude in illustration of the fruitfulness of a direct ...
Tópico(s): Aging and Gerontology Research
1975 - SAGE Publishing | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
Fiona S. Rupprecht, Kristina Martin, Stefan T. Kamin, Frieder R. Lang,
... might hence accentuate perceptions of the fragility and finitude of life. We investigated how different perceptions of ... pandemic) relate to different perceptions of life's finitude (i.e., future time perspective, death anxiety, and ... Initial levels and changes in the perceptions of finitude could partly be explained by initial and changing ... pandemic contributed to an altered stance toward the finitude of life. Concluding, we discuss stability and variation in perceptions of the finitude of life during a time of major societal ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 and Mental Health
2021 - American Psychological Association | Psychology and Aging
... Kant and if this experience or analytic of finitude (Foucault) establishes consciousness as modern consciousness as such, ... differentiation of modern knowledge is marked by this finitude. Every discursive limit that this thought erects, every ... framework of such delimitation is founded in this finitude. At the same time as modern knowledge production ... its delimitation appear as well: the experience of finitude becomes a constitutive unrest that impels knowledge to ... epistemology of constellations takes root. The experience of finitude is "what allows the most diverse discourses and ...
Tópico(s): Visual Culture and Art Theory
2011 - Johns Hopkins University Press | MLN
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Karla Cristina Giacomin, Wagner Jorge dos Santos, Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo,
... grieving due to disease and the awareness of finitude can be as disturbing as the actual death ... elderly in the community faced with their own finitude. This observational ethnographic study was conducted with 57 ... of the elderly in health care; awareness of finitude and anticipated grieving that negate the meaning of ... and real grieving and loss and awareness of finitude, which have been neglected in health care. Understanding ...
Tópico(s): Social and Economic Solidarity
2013 - ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE SAÚDE COLETIVA | Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães, Aryana Vieira Scotti, Amanda Soares, Sabrina Fernandes, Zênite Machado,
... na percepção de qualidade de vida (QV) e finitude de indivíduos praticantes e não praticantes de atividade ... composto de instrumentos previamente validados (Whoqol abreviado e Finitude de Sheppard). A análise foi descritiva e inferencial ... entre seus domínios, tendo uma percepção positiva da finitude, no qual o grupo que realiza dança (79, ... contribuir na percepção positiva da QV e na finitude.
Tópico(s): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
2012 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO | Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia
... But nor does this concept merely denote the finitude of Dasein's possibilities or the groundlessness of ... death has to be understood both as temporal finitude and as finitude of possibility. I show how this reading addresses ...
Tópico(s): Political Theology and Sovereignty
2007 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Eternity Lies Beneath: Autonomy and Finitude in Kierkegaard's Early Writings VANESSA RUMBLE AMONG the extant descriptions of Kierkegaard by his contemporaries, one particularly vivid portrait captures ... by the idolatrous will in its relation to finitude, the pietism of Kierkegaard's home had a ... Romantic sensibility: while pietism prescribed the refusal of finitude, or exacting self-examination in its appropriation, Romanticism ... Romantic portrayal of the subject's alienation from finitude echoes the Judeo-Christian proclamation of a fallen ...
Tópico(s): Literary and Philosophical Studies
1997 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of the history of philosophy
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Lina Faria, Luiz Antônio de Castro Santos, Rafael Andrés Patiño,
... to the multiplicity of metaphors and meanings on finitude, on processes of aging and rites of passage ... reflect on, in dialogue with his studies on finitude or the final moments of existence.O presente ... à multiplicidade de metáforas e significados sobre a finitude, sobre processos do envelhecer e rituais de passagem ... refletir, em diálogo com seus estudos sobre a finitude ou os momentos derradeiros da existência.Este texto ...
Tópico(s): Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
2017 - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz | Cadernos de Saúde Pública
... expected to survive into old age, thinking about finitude is easily postponed and reserved for those who ... aging needs to include a confrontation with the finitude of life. Instead of reducing aging to the ... aging, the article presents a philosophical exploration of finitude and finite life. Among the discussed topics are ... also the necessity to expand the meaning of "finitude" beyond mortality. Aging is foremost a process of ...
Tópico(s): Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
2016 - Oxford University Press | The Gerontologist
... rhetorical situation.”Cary Wolfe describes two types of finitude at the heart of the extrahuman relation: the finitude of embodiment that we share with all other living beings and the (also shared) finitude of our prosthetic subjection to language or to ... also take up, in distinct ways, this shared finitude of prosthetic subjection. Brown exposes some of the “ ...
Tópico(s): Education, Philosophy, and Society
2014 - Penn State University Press | Philosophy and Rhetoric
... a need for continuity in the face of finitude. As predicted, Study 1 (N = 250, 18-77 ... their life to induce thoughts about life's finitude (vs. a control condition) led to higher levels ... function of generation identity in the face of finitude.
Tópico(s): Identity, Memory, and Therapy
2014 - American Psychological Association | Psychology and Aging
... July 01 2012 Transcendental Guilt: Reflections on Ethical Finitude Transcendental Guilt: Reflections on Ethical Finitude. Sami Pihlström. Lanham: Lexington, 2011. Kim Garchar Kim ... Citation Kim Garchar; Transcendental Guilt: Reflections on Ethical Finitude. The Pluralist 1 January 2012; 7 (2): 122– ...
2012 - University of Illinois Press | The Pluralist
... philosophy of the postulates as incoherent, burdened with finitude and antithesis. The ought is only the beginning of the transcendence of finitude, but also essentially clings to finitude. This is the spurious infinite. In contrast to ... finite and levels it. The consciousness of limit (finitude) implies a transcendence of limit. The true infinite ...
Tópico(s): Philosophical Ethics and Theory
2011 - Philosophy Documentation Center | Owl of Minerva
... disengagement theory of aging. It examines awareness of finitude, defined as the individual's estimate of his ... residents of old age institutions revealed awareness of finitude to be a better predictor of disengagement than ... age. Future research should examine whether awareness of finitude is also a significant predictor of disengagement outside ...
Tópico(s): Aging and Gerontology Research
1980 - Oxford University Press | The Gerontologist
... cancer, through which I sought to explore human finitude and the social management of human mortality. Fateful moments, awareness of finitude, and the suppression of human finitude are central themes that emerged from my interviews ... that resisted the prevailing social suppressions of human finitude, and acknowledged the limitations of lifetimes. This paper ... highlights the intersections of gender, illness and human finitude.
Tópico(s): Political and Economic history of UK and US
2003 - Taylor & Francis | Health Sociology Review
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Leonardo Bohner Hoffmann, Ana Beatriz Brandão Santos, Ricardo Tavares de Carvalho,
... categorias de significado: recursos de enfrentamento relativos à finitude; sofrimentos relativos à finitude; sentidos atribuídos à vida e à morte. Percebeu-se como maior sofrimento não a finitude em si, mas o que decorre dela, como ...
Tópico(s): Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
2021 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | Psicologia USP
... approach to sociology that takes human experiences of finitude and possibility as crucial topics of investigation. A ... and dying. Yet Heidegger’s existentialism renders our finitude – not just death – a matter of everyday life, ... investigation. By explicating Heidegger’s interconnected concepts of finitude, futurity, authenticity and resoluteness, we propose to investigate ...
Tópico(s): Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
2018 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Classical Sociology
Vladimir Chernousov, Andrei S. Rapinchuk, Igor A. Rapinchuk,
... tori as G. Nous présentons plusieurs résultats de finitude pour les groupes algébriques absolument presque simples définis ... discutons aussi des liens entre les propriétés de finitude diverses qui entrent dans le cadre de notre ... V de valuations discrètes de K, et la finitude du nombre de K-formes de G ayant, ...
Tópico(s): Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
2016 - Elsevier BV | Comptes Rendus Mathématique
... The Order of Things echo the concerns about finitude and subjectivity in Heidegger’s Kant and the ... Heideggerian interpretation of Kant, and the preoccupation with finitude, that had played such an important role in ...
Tópico(s): Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2016 - Copenhagen Business School | Foucault Studies
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Raylane da Silva Machado, Larissa Alves de Araújo Lima, Grazielle Roberta Freitas da Silva, Claudete Ferreira de Souza Monteiro, Sílvana Santiago da Rocha,
... out a reflection on how the vision of finitude/death in Western society influences the performance of ... feelings of guilt and sadness.It is important, Finitude
Tópico(s): Psychology and Mental Health
2016 - University of Alicante | Cultura de los Cuidados
... death, wherein we must face up to our finitude and the finitude of all those we love. The paper also ... formulations for the development of an ethics of finitude.
Tópico(s): Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
2015 - Guilford Press | The Psychoanalytic Review
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Kely Regina da Luz, Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Vargas, Pablo Henrique Schmidtt, Edison Luiz Devos Barlem, Jamila Geri Tomaschewski-Barlem, Luciana Martins da Rosa,
... infrastructure; to invest or not - dilemmas related to finitude - showing situations of dilemmas related to pain and confrontation with finitude.For the effective confrontation of the ethical problems ... of dilemmas related mainly to the possibility of finitude.
Tópico(s): Palliative and Oncologic Care
2015 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Thiago Antônio Avellar de Aquino, Andrei Alves de Aguiar, Sarah Xavier Peixoto de Vasconcelos, Sergio Lopes dos Santos,
... uma pesquisa-ação para abordar o tema da finitude partindo da concepção de Viktor Frankl sobre o ... a importância de tratar sobre o tema da finitude no âmbito escolar.
Tópico(s): Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
2014 - Conselho Federal de Psicologia | Psicologia Ciência e Profissão
... supposedly indestructible structures of knowledge is happening today: finitude of the subject, phenomenal given, a priori synthesis. “ ... it appears in Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude. Some questions that we thought could never be ... possibility of a totally different world. Does After Finitude elaborate such concepts?
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2014 - Penn State University Press | The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
... book chapter, Wolfe focuses on two kinds of finitude: the finitude that arises from the fact of human embodiment (physical vulnerability and mortality) and the finitude we experience in our subjection to and constitution ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2013 - Taylor & Francis | The Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies
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Juliana de Miranda e Castro-Arantes, Anna Carolina Lo Bianco,
... dealing with the imminence of death and the finitude of life are then outlined. The first is ... to the patients with compassion, acknowledging the inexorable finitude common to all, such that they may not ...
Tópico(s): Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
2013 - ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE SAÚDE COLETIVA | Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Revisado por pares
... que podem ser humanos ou não. Na expressão “finitude humana”, o substantivo “finitude” se refere a uma característica universal da condição ...
Tópico(s): Ethics in medical practice
2012 - | Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia
... they take place is that of the factical finitude of modern times. Its security politics are katechontic. ... through which concrete form is given to factical finitude, modern biopolitics of security and war exemplify the ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2011 - Duke University Press | South Atlantic Quarterly
... Contract, p.34. 19 See Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, trans. ... Enigma of Reason: On Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude, Collapse, 2 (2007), pp.15–54. 20 Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude, pp.63, 116. 21 Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and ...
Tópico(s): Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Parallax