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The long life / Helen Small

Small, Helen

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

Online Ressource (xi, 346 p.)

Englisch

Introduction; 1. The Platonic Threshold; 2. On Seeing the End; 3. Narrative Unity of Lives; 4. The Power of Choosing; 5. Where Self-Interest Ends; 6. The Bounded Life; 7. Now or Never; 8. Evolved Senescence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Notes; Index;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Long life

978-0-19-922993-2 (Cloth); 0-19-922993-7 (Cloth); 978-0-19-152805-7 ( : electronic bk.); 0-19-152805-6 (electronic bk.)

0-19-922993-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-922993-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 183206919     

OCoLC: 183206919 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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305.2601     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC013000 ; bisacsh: FAM005000 ; bicssc: CS ; bisacsh: SOC 013000 ; bisacsh: FAM 005000

LOC-SH: Old age -- Philosophy ; Old age in literature ; Old age -- Philosophy ; Old age -- Philosophy ; Old age in literature ; Electronic books

MeSH: Aged

Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Old age in literature ; Old age ; Philosophy

The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literature since Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age , Helen Small ranges widely from Plato through to recent work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams and others, and from King Lear through Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Bellow, Roth, and Coetzee. - ;The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip La