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Aging thoughtfully : conversations about retirement, romance, wrinkles, and regret / Martha C. Nussbaum, Saul Levmore.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: [New York] : Oxford University Press, [2017]Description: viii, 251 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190600235 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Electronic version:: Aging thoughtfully.DDC classification:
  • 23 305.26
LOC classification:
  • BF724.55.A35 N87 2017
Contents:
1. Learning from King Lear -- Aging and control in King Lear--and the danger of generalization -- Distributing, disinheriting, and paying for care since Lear -- 2. Retirement policy -- Must we retire? -- No end in sight -- 3. Aging with friends -- On aging, on friendship : arguing with Cicero -- What are friends for? -- 4. Aging bodies -- Can wrinkles be glamorous? -- Our bodies, ourselves : aging, stigma, and disgust -- 5. Looking back -- Living the past forward : the present and future value of backward-looking emotions -- No regrets, and a cheer for retirement communities -- 6. Romance and sex beyond middle age -- Lies of Richard Strauss, truths of Shakespeare : aging women, sex, and love -- The adventures of Ben Franklin, Ivana Trump, and rejected lovers of all ages -- 7. Inequality and an aging population -- Inequality and the elderly poor -- Aging and human capabilities -- 8. Giving it away -- Paradoxes of giving (solutions included) --Aging and altruism.
Summary: A philosopher and a lawyer-economist examine the challenges of the last third of life. They write about friendship, sex, retirement communities, inheritance, poverty, and the depiction of aging women in films. These essays, or conversations, will help readers of all ages think about how to age well, or at least thoughtfully, and how to interact with older family members and friends.
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions 2018
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 305.26 NUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000412630

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Learning from King Lear -- Aging and control in King Lear--and the danger of generalization -- Distributing, disinheriting, and paying for care since Lear -- 2. Retirement policy -- Must we retire? -- No end in sight -- 3. Aging with friends -- On aging, on friendship : arguing with Cicero -- What are friends for? -- 4. Aging bodies -- Can wrinkles be glamorous? -- Our bodies, ourselves : aging, stigma, and disgust -- 5. Looking back -- Living the past forward : the present and future value of backward-looking emotions -- No regrets, and a cheer for retirement communities -- 6. Romance and sex beyond middle age -- Lies of Richard Strauss, truths of Shakespeare : aging women, sex, and love -- The adventures of Ben Franklin, Ivana Trump, and rejected lovers of all ages -- 7. Inequality and an aging population -- Inequality and the elderly poor -- Aging and human capabilities -- 8. Giving it away -- Paradoxes of giving (solutions included) --Aging and altruism.

A philosopher and a lawyer-economist examine the challenges of the last third of life. They write about friendship, sex, retirement communities, inheritance, poverty, and the depiction of aging women in films. These essays, or conversations, will help readers of all ages think about how to age well, or at least thoughtfully, and how to interact with older family members and friends.

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