Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman
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A few years ago, Didier Eribon's mother moved into a retirement home. After several months during which she gradually lost her physical and cognitive autonomy, Didier Eribon and his brothers had to place her in a medical facility. The shock of entering the retirement home was too brutal, and she died there only a few weeks after her arrival. Her son resumes the personal and theoretical exploration he had begun in 'Retour à Reims' following his father's death.
In 'Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman,' Eribon describes the life of his mother, a cleaner, worker, and then retiree, capturing all its complexity, including her involvement in strikes and her obsessive racism. Didier Eribon invites us to reflect on old age and illness, the conditions of care for dependent persons, our relationships with the elderly and death, and more generally on the experience of aging, an edge experience in Western philosophy.
Eribon starts with old age to begin a reflection on politics: how could people lacking mobility and voice capability mobilize and say 'we'?
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