ISBN:
9781421406466
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (298 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Aging and the Art of Living
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Aging - Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Chronocratic Emperor Has No Clothes -- Overview -- 1 Chronometric Regimes: The Life Course, Aging, and Time -- Introduction -- 1.1 Historical Backgrounds of the Chronometric Life Course -- A Biographical Sandglass -- Age in Social Legislation -- Late Modern Systemic Worlds and Life Worlds -- 1.2 Chronometric Life Courses: Beyond Standardization and De-standardization -- The Continuing Importance of Chronometric Age -- Chronometric Regimes -- 1.3 Care and Its Chronometric Regimes -- Chronometric Care and Its Acceleration -- Time-efficient Lives -- 1.4 Chronometric Aging: Exactly Arbitrary -- Intrinsic Time and Intrinsic Malleability -- The Heisenberg Principle of Aging -- Conclusions -- 2 Exclusion, Activism, and Eternal Youth -- Introduction -- 2.1 From Natural Passivity to Activating Activities for Older People -- From "Idleness with Dignity" to Being as Being Busy -- Stay Active: "Use It or Lose It" -- 2.2 The Emergence of an Anti-aging Culture -- "Don't Call 'em Old, Call 'em Consumers!" -- "Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life" -- 2.3 The Much-desired Long and Invulnerable Life: Magic and Magic Technology -- A Fundamental Vulnerability -- Conclusions -- 3 A Passion for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Aging -- Introduction -- 3.1 Early Greek Thought about the Life Course -- Solon's Untraditional Views -- 3.2 The Search for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Life -- Plato's Academy -- Aristotle's Lyceum -- The Garden of Epicurus -- The Stoics -- Wisdom, Aging, and Old Age -- 3.3 Cicero and the Stoic Art of Living in Old Age -- Cicero -- Cato Maior de Senectute: On Old Age -- Cicero's Defense of Old Age against Four Complaints -- A Statesman's View of Old Age -- Conclusions -- 4 Modern Science, the Discovery of a Personal History, and Aging Authentically.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Chronocratic Emperor Has No Clothes""; ""Overview""; ""1 Chronometric Regimes: The Life Course, Aging, and Time""; ""Introduction""; ""1.1 Historical Backgrounds of the Chronometric Life Course""; ""A Biographical Sandglass""; ""Age in Social Legislation""; ""Late Modern Systemic Worlds and Life Worlds""; ""1.2 Chronometric Life Courses: Beyond Standardization and De-standardization""; ""The Continuing Importance of Chronometric Age""; ""Chronometric Regimes""; ""1.3 Care and Its Chronometric Regimes""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chronometric Care and Its Acceleration""""Time-efficient Lives""; ""1.4 Chronometric Aging: Exactly Arbitrary""; ""Intrinsic Time and Intrinsic Malleability""; ""The Heisenberg Principle of Aging""; ""Conclusions""; ""2 Exclusion, Activism, and Eternal Youth""; ""Introduction""; ""2.1 From Natural Passivity to Activating Activities for Older People""; ""From “Idleness with Dignity� to Being as Being Busy""; ""Stay Active: “Use It or Lose It�""; ""2.2 The Emergence of an Anti-aging Culture""; ""“Don�t Call �em Old, Call �em Consumers!�""
Description / Table of Contents:
""“Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life�""""2.3 The Much-desired Long and Invulnerable Life: Magic and Magic Technology""; ""A Fundamental Vulnerability""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 A Passion for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Aging""; ""Introduction""; ""3.1 Early Greek Thought about the Life Course""; ""Solon�s Untraditional Views""; ""3.2 The Search for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Life""; ""Plato�s Academy""; ""Aristotle�s Lyceum""; ""The Garden of Epicurus""; ""The Stoics""; ""Wisdom, Aging, and Old Age""
Description / Table of Contents:
""3.3 Cicero and the Stoic Art of Living in Old Age""""Cicero""; ""Cato Maior de Senectute: On Old Age""; ""Cicero�s Defense of Old Age against Four Complaints""; ""A Statesman�s View of Old Age""; ""Conclusions""; ""4 Modern Science, the Discovery of a Personal History, and Aging Authentically""; ""Introduction""; ""4.1 Aging in a World of Meaningful Repetition""; ""4.2 (Ir)reversible Time and the Senescing of Organisms""; ""Does Nature Repeat Itself Eternally?""; ""Nature Changes and Time Is Irreversible""; ""Senescing, Irreversible Time, and the Organism""
Description / Table of Contents:
""4.3 The Idealization of Science and the Epistemological Reduction of Time""""4.4 The Struggle for a Fuller Experience of Time""; ""Augustine: A Threefold Present""; ""Bergson: Time as Creativity""; ""Husserl: The Phenomenological Experience of Time""; ""Heidegger: Authentic Temporal Being in the Face of Death""; ""Time Is Lived in Constitutive Life Worlds""; ""Conclusions""; ""5 Aging and Narrative Identities""; ""Introduction""; ""5.1 Embedding Aging in Narratives""; ""Narratives and Narrative Identity""; ""Narrative Integration as a “Good Life�""; ""Life Plans""
Description / Table of Contents:
""“Real Stories� and Textual Issues""
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