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The long life / Helen Small

Small, Helen [Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 346 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index

978-0-19-152805-7 ; 0-19-152805-6 ; 978-0-19-922993-2 ; 0-19-922993-7 ; 1-281-15025-8 ; 978-1-281-15025-7 ; 978-0-19-922993-2

 

Alter  Philosophie  Literatur  Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 

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.