On aging : revolt and resignation /
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 e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c1994.
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 132 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132). |
| ISBN: | 0253306752 |