| Description |
xxiii, 132 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-132). |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Psychology.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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| Added Title |
Über das Altern. English
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| ISBN |
0253306752 cloth |
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9780253306753 cloth |
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