It’s about time for untimely action

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17267/2594-7907ijeh.2023.e5389

Keywords:

Untimeliness, Literature, Illness, Caring, Creativity

Abstract

Illness, but also caring for the ill and mourning the dead, requires allowing oneself to experience a different time, an embodied untimeliness where different rhythms coexist, removed from the speedy tumult of those for whom health is no immediate concern. Rather than a chronological flow, it is a kairotic time, which is sensitive to the context, and allows wanderings and repetitions, hesitations, and changes in pace[1]. Caring and mourning demands “untimeliness and disadjustment of the contemporary[2].” In that sense, the intimate experience of illness is comparable to a form of creativity.

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Published

10/19/2023

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Editorial

How to Cite

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Chainey BG. It’s about time for untimely action. Intern J Educ H [Internet]. 2023 Oct. 19 [cited 2024 Oct. 4];7:e5389. Available from: https://journals.bahiana.edu.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/5389

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