Zusatztext Small... deserves to feel good, for she has argued tirelessly, written an impressively researched book, and commanded the interest of sceptics more than twice her age. Informationen zum Autor Helen Small was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Cambridge. She taught English Literature at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1996, and since 1996 has been Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2004 she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and was a Visiting Scholar at New York University. The Long Life was primarily written during that period. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext

Helen Small was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Cambridge. She taught English Literature at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1996, and since 1996 has been Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2004 she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and was a Visiting Scholar at New York University. The Long Life was primarily written during that period.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

• 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