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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Aging Studies ; 17Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839444221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 115.67 23
LOC classification:
  • BF724.85.S45
Other classification:
  • LB 43860
Online resources:
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
Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Contemporary 2016-2018Summary: 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

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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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