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Reading Our Lives - The poetics of growing old (Hardcover)
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Reading Our Lives - The poetics of growing old (Hardcover)
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Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined
life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing
Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging.
Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing
inevitable decline, this book looks at aging as, potentially, a
process of poiesis: a creative endeavor of fashioning meaning from
the ever-accumulating texts - memories and reflections-that
constitute our inner worlds. At its center is the conviction that
although we are constantly reading our lives to some degree anyway,
doing so in a mindful matter is critical to our development in the
second half of life.
Drawing on research in numerous disciplines affected by the
so-called narrative turn - including cognitive psychology,
neuroscience, and the psychology of aging - authors Randall and
McKim articulate a vision of aging that promises to accommodate
such time-honored concepts as wisdom and spirituality: one that
understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of
consciously growing old.
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