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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.
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 -- 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 -- "Real Stories" and Textual Issues -- 5.2 A Modest Necessity of Stories -- Changes, Themes, and Phases -- Stories: Intertwining the Past, the Present, and the Future -- Institutional Narrative Practices -- Narratives of the Life World and the Systemic World -- Conclusions -- 6 Perspectives-Toward an Art of Aging -- Introduction -- 6.1 Interhuman Vulnerability and the Dignity of "Unsuccessful" Aging -- The Vulnerability of the Interhuman Condition -- Aging and Increasing Vulnerability -- The Dignity of "Unsuccessful" Aging -- Autonomy and Structural Paternalism -- 6.2 Toward an Art of Aging: Beyond Conventional Wisdom -- Older and Wiser? -- 6.3. Toward an Art of Aging: Living in Different Times -- A Multi-layered Present -- Kairos: A Sensitivity for Changing Temporal Qualities -- Activism and Receptivity -- Memories Have Their Own Times -- Actions Constitute Time -- Life Events and Life's Periods -- The Times of Life Are Finite -- A Last Question about the Beginning of Time -- 6.4. Toward an Art of Aging: Beyond Longer Lives.
Aging as Finitization: A Deepening of Unique Lives -- Unique Lives: Empirical and Ethical -- Contingent and Existential Limitations -- Why Do We Age? How Can Aging Be Meaningful? -- Is It Good to Live Longer? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Aging and the art of living [[electronic resource] /] / Jan Baars
