On Aging
Revolt and Resignation
J Amery
ISBN: | 9780253306753 |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Published: | 30 September, 1994 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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On Aging
Revolt and Resignation
J Amery
... if Am�ry's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Am�ry reminds us of why human life is precious." ?Alan Wolfe, The New Republic"The pessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students and faculty involved with issues of aging." ?Choice"The writing challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language and expectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their most essential dimensions." ?Contemporary GerontologyFive profoundly moving and courageously honest essays about the process of aging by the famous Belgian author of At the Mind's Limits. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old, from the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence to the argument that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us).
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