The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literaturesince 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, andfrom King Lear through Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Bellow, Roth, and Coetzee. INDICE: Introduction; 1: The Platonic Threshhold (Plato and Thomas Mann); 2: On Seeing the End (Aristotle and King Lear); 3: Narrative Unity of Lives(Epicureanism, the Narrative View, Saul Bellow); 4: The Power of Choosing (Prudential Life Planning, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith); 5: Where Self-Interest Ends (Derek Parfit and Balzac); 6: The Bounded Life (Adorno's Metaphysics, Dickens, Beckett); 7: Now or Never (Bernard Williams, J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth);8: Evolved Senescence (Evolutionary theory, Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue);Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959256-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés