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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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International Perspectives on Aging ; v. 25 |
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International perspectives on aging ; 25.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Aging and Human Nature -- Perspectives from Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Anthropology -- 1.1 Conception and Structure -- 1.2 Contributions -- References -- Part I: Aging and the Human Condition -- Chapter 2: Becoming Oneself. On the Individuality of Aging -- 2.1 The Significance and Misapprehension of Individuality -- 2.2 Constitutive Theoretical and Fundamental Anthropological Aspects of Individuality -- 2.3 On the Significance of Inter-Existential Individuality for Aging |
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2.4 The Recognition of Limits and the Constitution of Existential Meaningfulness -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Aging and Personal Growth. Developmental Potentials in Old Age -- 3.1 Developmental Potentials in Borderline Situations -- 3.2 Three Conceptual Approaches to Developmental Potentials -- 3.2.1 The First Perspective: Biography -- 3.2.2 The Second Perspective: Plasticity, Adaptive and Creative Potentials, and Resilience -- 3.2.3 The Third Perspective: Given vs. Lacking Openness of Society for the Potential of Old Age -- 3.3 A Changed Understanding of the Old Person |
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3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Beyond Control. Dependence and Passivity in Old Age -- 4.1 Longevity and the Dream of Age without Aging -- 4.2 Dependence -- 4.3 Devaluation of Dependence -- 4.4 Reductionist Anthropology -- 4.5 Dimensions of the Meaning of Dependence -- 4.6 Passivity -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Aging, Body, and Space -- Chapter 5: The Aging Body as Lived History. A Phenomenological Perspective -- 5.1 How Do We Know That We Are Aging? -- 5.2 Phenomenology of the Body -- 5.3 Phenomenology of the Aging Body |
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5.3.1 A First-Person Perspective of the Aging Body -- 5.3.2 Pain, Disability, and Old Age -- 5.3.3 A Third-Person Perspective of the Aging Body -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Becoming Old. The Gendered Body and the Experience of Aging -- 6.1 Setting the Scene: Aging, Gender, and the Body -- 6.1.1 Gendering Aging -- Aging Gender -- 6.1.2 Embodying Aging -- Aging Embodied -- 6.2 Becoming Old from Without: The Concept of Situation -- 6.3 Becoming Old from Within: Being and Having an (Aging) Body -- 6.3.1 Aging (Female) Bodies -- 6.3.2 Aged Bodies as Female |
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6.4 Becoming Old: Embracing Anthropological Ambiguity -- References -- Chapter 7: Capturing Space. Aging, (Dis- )Placement, or Making Room -- 7.1 When Are You Old? -- 7.2 Ms. D. Is Put in a Hospital. Inhabiting Space, Displacement, and Disembodied Aging -- 7.3 Ms. W. Goes for a Walk: Capturing Space from Place to Place -- 7.4 "Faltenrockparty" : Capturing Space and Embodied Age -- 7.5 Supposition -- References -- Part III: Aging, Time, and Narrativity -- Chapter 8: Living in a Temporal Perspective. Aging Between Metric and Narrative Time |
| Summary |
This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. It provides a systematic inventory of fundamental theoretical questions and assumptions involved in the discussion of ageing and old age. What does it mean for human beings to grow old and become more vulnerable and dependent? How can we understand the manifestations of ageing and old age in the human body? How should we interpret the processes of change in the temporal course of a human life? What impact does old age have on the social dimensions of human existence? In order to tackle these questions, the volume brings together internationally distinguished scholars from the fields of philosophy, theology, cultural studies, social gerontology, and ageing studies. The collection of their original articles makes a twofold contribution to contemporary academic discourse. On one hand, it helps to clarify and deepen our understanding of ageing and old age by examining it from the fundamental point of view of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. At the same time, it also enhances and expands the discourses of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology by systematically taking into account that human beings are essentially ageing creatures |
| Notes |
8.1 The Emergence of Metric Time from Cosmological Narratives |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects
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Aging -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schweda, Mark
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Coors, Michael
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Bozzaro, Claudia
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| ISBN |
9783030250973 |
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3030250970 |
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