The long life
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 Smit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31645835*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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;
