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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Améry, Jean (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Barlow, John D. (Traducteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:anglais
allemand
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
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Résumé: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).
Description matérielle:xxiii, 132 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132).
ISBN:0253306752