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1 online resource (xxiii, 132 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132). |
| Contents |
Existence and the Passage of Time -- Stranger to Oneself -- The Look of Others -- Not to Understand the World Anymore -- To Live with Dying. |
| Summary |
On Aging, the first of Jean Amery's books after At the Mind's Limits, is a powerful and profound work on the process of aging and the limited but real defenses available to those experiencing the process. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old. "Existence and the Passage of Time" focuses on the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence. "Stranger to Oneself" is a meditation on the ways the aging are alienated from themselves. "The Look of Others" treats social aging - the realization that it is no longer possible to live according to one's potential or possibilities. "Not to Understand the World Anymore" deals with the loss of the ability to understand new developments in the arts and in the changing values of society. The fifth essay, "To Live with Dying," argues that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us). Here Amery's intention, as encapsulated by John D. Barlow, becomes most clear: "to disturb easy and cheap compromises and to urge his readers to their own individual acts of defiance and acceptance." |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Older people -- Psychology.
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Older people -- Psychology. |
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Über das Altern. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93102928
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Améry, Jean. Über das Altern. English. On aging. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1994 0253306752 (DLC) 93041804 (OCoLC)29315296 |
| ISBN |
058510865X (electronic book) |
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9780585108650 (electronic book) |
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0253306752 (cloth) |
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9780253306753 (cloth) |
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