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200 14$aThe long life /$fHelen Small
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2007
215   $axi, 346 p
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
327   $aIntro -- 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.
330   $aThe 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.
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