“Old age is not a biological fact but a social one,” Beauvoir writes. “A man is not old because he has lived a certain number of years; he is old because society considers him as such.” She systematically dismantles the myth that aging is a purely personal crisis, instead framing it as a systemic failure. The way a culture treats its oldest members, she argues, reveals its deepest values—or lack thereof.

Aging as Otherness: Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir’s Old Age

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