02499nam 2200589Ia 450 991045210730332120200520144314.01-281-15025-897866111502590-19-152805-61-4356-1405-4(CKB)1000000000481412(EBL)415906(OCoLC)476245644(SSID)ssj0000194049(PQKBManifestationID)11180353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194049(PQKBWorkID)10246413(PQKB)11110713(MiAaPQ)EBC415906(Au-PeEL)EBL415906(CaPaEBR)ebr10199697(CaONFJC)MIL115025(EXLCZ)99100000000048141220070509d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe long life[electronic resource] /Helen SmallOxford Oxford University Press20071 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-922993-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.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; IndexThe 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 LaOld agePhilosophyOld age in literatureElectronic books.Old agePhilosophy.Old age in literature.305.2601Small Helen457536MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452107303321The long life1893870UNINA