Reading Our Lives - The poetics of growing old (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	June 2008
Authors:	William L. Randall (Associate Professor, Gerontology) • Elizabeth McKim (Associate Professor, English)
Dimensions:	244 x 165 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-530687-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Geriatric medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adults > Elderly Promotions
LSN:	0-19-530687-2
Barcode:	9780195306873

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