Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old by William L. Randall,Elizabeth McKim

By William L. Randall,Elizabeth McKim

opposed to the historical past of Socrates' perception that the unexamined existence isn't really worthy residing, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of turning out to be Old investigates the usually neglected inside of dimensions of getting older. regardless of well known portrayals of mid- and later existence as entailing inevitable decline, this ebook appears at getting older as, very likely, a strategy of poiesis: an inventive undertaking of fashioning that means from the ever-accumulating texts - stories and reflections-that represent our internal worlds. At its heart is the conviction that even if we're regularly studying our lives to a point besides, doing so in a conscious topic is necessary to our improvement within the moment half existence.
Drawing on learn in several disciplines plagued by the so-called narrative flip - together with cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the psychology of getting older - authors Randall and McKim articulate a imaginative and prescient of getting older that delivers to deal with such standard strategies as knowledge and spirituality: one who is aware getting older as an issue now not only of having outdated yet of consciously starting to be old.

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