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Aging and Self-Realization : Cultural Narratives about Later Life / Hanne Laceulle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Aging Studies ; 17Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839444221
  • 3839444225
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • BF724.85.S45
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- Living and aging in late modernity -- Chapter 3- Cultural narratives and counter narratives about aging -- Chapter 4- Self-realization -- Chapter 5 -Narrative identity and moral agency -- Chapter 6 -- Autonomy -- Chapter 7 -- Authenticity -- Chapter 8- Virtue -- Chapter 9 -- Conclusion -- References
Summary: Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizen hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity and virtue. These counter narratives aim to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity, while they make society recognize its senior members as valued participants and moral agents of their own lives.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- Living and aging in late modernity -- Chapter 3- Cultural narratives and counter narratives about aging -- Chapter 4- Self-realization -- Chapter 5 -Narrative identity and moral agency -- Chapter 6 -- Autonomy -- Chapter 7 -- Authenticity -- Chapter 8- Virtue -- Chapter 9 -- Conclusion -- References

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizen hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity and virtue. These counter narratives aim to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity, while they make society recognize its senior members as valued participants and moral agents of their own lives.

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