Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts

While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives. In this original contribution, she studies the nexus of life stories, subjectivity, fragmentation, and fiction. The philosophical basis of this research is phenomenology from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, specifically that of Husserl and above all that of Merleau-Ponty. This work also draws on Proust's and Camus' literature as well as Beckett's dramaturgy.

Auteur

Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann, born in 1971, is a professor of Legal Theory at the National Law School (FND) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from UFRJ, one PhD and two Postdocs in Law from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She is the coordinator of the Research Group on Theory of Human Rights (NTDH). Her field of research is interdisciplinary and has been focusing on the relation between Law, Philosophy and the Arts.