TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baars,Jan
TI  - Aging and the art of living
SN  - 9781421407098
AV  - HQ1061 .B235 2012
U1  - 305.26 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Aging
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Longévité
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ""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 Dignityâ€? to Being as Being Busy""; ""Stay Active: “Use It or Lose Itâ€?""; ""2.2 The Emergence of an Anti-aging Culture""; ""“Donâ€?t Call â€?em Old, Call â€?em Consumers!â€?""; ""€œTake Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Lifeâ€?""""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""; ""Solonâ€?s Untraditional Views""; ""3.2 The Search for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Life""; ""Platoâ€?s Academy""; ""Aristotleâ€?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""; ""Ciceroâ€?s Defense of Old Age against Four Complaints""; ""A Statesmanâ€?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 Lifeâ€?""; ""Life Plans""
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