Aging and Self-Realization: Cultural Narratives about Later Life

✍ Scribed by Hanne Laceulle; KU Select; Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Aging Studies; 17
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizen hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity and virtue. These counter narratives aim to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity, while they make society recognize its senior members as valued participants and moral agents of their own lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Content
Preface
Chapter 1–Introduction
Chapter 2–Living and aging in late modernity
Chapter 3–Cultural narratives and counter narratives about aging
Chapter 4–Self-realization
Chapter 5–Narrative identity and moral agency
Chapter 6–Autonomy
Chapter 7–Authenticity
Chapter 8–Virtue
Chapter 9–Conclusion
References