"... if Am???ry's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Am???ry reminds us of why human life is precious." --Alan Wolfe, The New Republic "The pessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students and faculty involved with issues of aging." --Choice "The writing challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language and expectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their most essential dimensions." - ...
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"... if Am???ry's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Am???ry reminds us of why human life is precious." --Alan Wolfe, The New Republic "The pessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students and faculty involved with issues of aging." --Choice "The writing challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language and expectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their most essential dimensions." --Contemporary Gerontology Five profoundly moving and courageously honest essays about the process of aging by the famous Belgian author of At the Mind's Limits. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old, from the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence to the argument that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us).
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Add this copy of On Aging, Revolt and Resignation to cart. $115.00, very good condition, Sold by Xerxes Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glen Head, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Indiana University Press.
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Bl; oomington. 1994 first edition thus. Indiana. Translated by John D Barlow. Hardcover octavo. Fine in Fine dj (very slight rubbing on rear dj panel). no owner marks. Like New. ISBN 0253306752.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked. xxiii, 132 p., 21 cm. On Aging, the first of Jean Amery's books after At the Mind's Limits, is a powerful and profound work on the process of aging and the limited but real defenses available to those experiencing the process. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old.
Add this copy of On Aging: Revolt and Resignation to cart. $184.54, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Indiana University Press.
