The long life [[electronic resource] /] / Helen Small

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452107303321
• Autore: Small Helen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-15025-8; 9786611150259; 0-19-152805-6; 1-4356-1405-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2601
• Soggetti: Old age - Philosophy; Old age in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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