02284nam 2200589Ia 450 991096201800332120251116153202.0978661115025997801915280570191528056978019922993201992299379781281150257128115025897814356140551435614054(MiAaPQ)EBC7035553(CKB)24235076000041(MiAaPQ)EBC415906(Au-PeEL)EBL415906(CaPaEBR)ebr10199697(CaONFJC)MIL115025(OCoLC)476245644(Au-PeEL)EBL7035553(OCoLC)183206919(EXLCZ)992423507600004120070509d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe long life /Helen Small1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press2007xi, 346 pIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.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.Old agePhilosophyOld age in literatureOld agePhilosophy.Old age in literature.305.2601Small Helen457536MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962018003321The long life4364010UNINA