The outcast elderly from the perspective of political freedom in the public space: a dialogue between Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
Freedom, Elderly, Pariah, Politics, Society.
The present Research Project that we are presenting can be inserted in the Line of Research Ethics and Political Philosophy, since its scope is the thought by Simone de Beauvoir on the outcast elderly and Hannah Arendt's political reflection on freedom in the public space. The theoretical-philosophical approaches of both thinkers present themselves as of great relevance, and their works, full of foundations capable of to support the research that we intend to develop about the problem of the elderly as a pariah and the question of his freedom within the public space. In his philosophy, Arendt seeks to reflect on the theme of freedom in the public space in several of her works. construction. In his approaches, he reports that Jews, as ethnic minorities, are like outcasts, configured as despised and repudiated by society. when taking a look to the topic of aging put forward by Simone de Beauvoir, the French thinker weaves that society, sheltered behind myths of expansion and abundance, treats the old like outcasts. This Project seeks to explain analyzes about the elderly-pariah in search of freedom in public space on a bridge exchanged by Hannah Arendt and the French thinker Simone de Beauvoir. It is about thinking of the elderly as a minority, in the pariah status and in the effective exercise of its power of political freedom within the scope of the public place.