| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The 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. - ;The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip La. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Old age -- Philosophy.
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Old age -- Philosophy. |
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Old age. |
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Old age in literature.
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Old age in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Small, Helen. Long life. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199229932 0199229937 (OCoLC)137312951 |
| ISBN |
9780191528057 (electronic book) |
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0191528056 (electronic book) |
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9780199229932 (Cloth) |
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0199229937 (Cloth) |
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1281150258 |
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9781281150257 |
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