The long life

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781281150257
ISBN: 1281150258
ISBN: 0199229937
ISBN: 9780199229932
ISBN: 0191528056
ISBN: 9780191528057
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages)
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Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.