Aging and Self-Realization

2018-11-30
Aging and Self-Realization

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  • Author: Hanne Laceulle
  • Publisher: transcript Verlag
  • ISBN: 3839444225
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 301

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens 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.

Aging and Self-Realization

2019-01-16
Aging and Self-Realization

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  • Author: Hanne Laceulle
  • Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
  • ISBN: 9783837644227
  • Category : Aging
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

Hanne Laceulle outlines counternarratives about later life that acknowledge both its potentials and vulnerabilities. She explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity, and virtue, aiming to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity.

Meaning and Aging

Meaning and Aging

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  • Author: Joachim Duyndam
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031558065
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 159

The Oxford Handbook of Humanism

2021
The Oxford Handbook of Humanism

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  • Author: Anthony B. Pinn
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190921536
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 825

"The Oxford Handbook of Humanism aims to cover the history, the philosophical development, and the influence humanist thought and culture. As a system of thought that values human needs and experiences over supernatural concerns, humanism has gained greater attention amid the rapidly shifting demographics of religious communities, especially in Europe and North America. This outlook on the world has taken on global dimensions as well, with activists, artists, and thinkers forming a humanistic response not only to traditional religion, but to the pressing social and political issues of the 21st century. To address these areas, the chapters in this volume discuss humanism as a global phenomenon-an approach that has often been neglected in more Western-focused works. The Handbook will also approach humanism as both an opponent to traditional religion as well as a philosophy that some religions have explicitly adopted. Sections are divided into regional studies, intellectual histories, humanist organizations and movements, the impact on culture, humanism in the public arena, and influence of humanism on social issues. Keywords: Humanism, atheism, unbelief, free-thought, secularism, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, history"--

Death

2019-11
Death

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  • Author: Joan Tollifson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781916290303
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening. Beautiful, poignant, at times humorous, transcendent, messy, down to earth, refreshingly honest--the book explores death, and more importantly, being alive, through a rich mix of personal stories and spiritual reflections. Joan writes about her mother's final years and about being with friends and teachers at the end of their lives. She shares her own journey with aging, anal cancer, and other life challenges. She explores what it means to be alive in what may be the collapse of civilization and the possible extinction of life on earth due to climate change. Pointing beyond deficiency stories, future fantasies, and oppressive self-improvement projects, Joan invites an awakening to the immediacy of this moment and the wonder of ordinary life. She demonstrates a pathless path of genuine transformation, seeing all of life as sacred and worthy of devotion, and finding joy in the full range of our human experience.

Aging as a Spiritual Practice

2012-12-31
Aging as a Spiritual Practice

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  • Author: Lewis Richmond
  • Publisher: Avery
  • ISBN: 1592407471
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

Offers a Buddhist perspective on aging well, with anecdotes of the author's experiences with illness, aging, and transformation, and guided meditations.

Creative Aging

2010
Creative Aging

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  • Author: Marjory Zoet Bankson
  • Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
  • ISBN: 1594732817
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

Discover Your Unique Gift "Creative aging is a choice.... If we remember that transition always begins with endings, moves on to a wilderness period of testing and trying, and only then do we reach the beginning of something new, then we can embrace this encore period of life with hope and curiosity, remembering always that it is our true nature to be creative, to be always birthing new ways of sharing our planet together." --from the Epilogue In a practical and useful way, Marjory Zoet Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. She offers creative ways for you to share your gifts and experience, particularly when retirement leaves you questioning who you are when you are no longer defined by your career. Drawing on stories of people who have reinvented their lives in their older years, Bankson explores the issues you need to address as you move into this generative period of life: Release Letting go of the vocational identity associated with your career or primary work Resistance Feeling stuck, stagnant, resisting change Reclaiming Drawing energy from the past, discovering unused gifts Revelation Forming a new vision of the future Crossing Point Moving from stagnation to generativity Risk Stepping out into the world with new hope Relating Finding or creating new structures for a new kind of work

Ageing in Irish Writing

2018-07-18
Ageing in Irish Writing

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  • Author: Heather Ingman
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319964305
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study examines the portrayal of ageing in fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Deirdre Madden, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, John Banville, John McGahern, Norah Hoult and Edna O’Brien, among others. The chapters follow a logical thematic progression from efforts to hold back time, to resisting the decline narrative of ageing, solitary ageing versus ageing in the community, and dementia and the world of the bedbound and dying. One chapter analyses the changing portrayal of older people in the Irish short story. Recent demographic shifts in Ireland have focused attention on an increasing ageing population, making this study a timely intervention in the field of literary gerontology.

Re-discovering Age(ing)

2019-07-31
Re-discovering Age(ing)

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  • Author: Núria Casado-Gual
  • Publisher: transcript Verlag
  • ISBN: 3839443962
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 187

Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume explore wisdom in old age through a series of narratives of mentorship which, either from a critical or a personal perspective, undermine ageist views of later life.

The Self and Society in Aging Processes

1999-06-23
The Self and Society in Aging Processes

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  • Author: Carol D. Ryff, PhD
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 0826117155
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 504

This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors. Ryff and Marshall construct this "macro" view of aging in society by bridging disciplines and brining together contributors from all the social sciences. The book is organized into three sections: theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic structures, and contexts of self and society. Leading psychologists, anthropologists, gerontologists, and sociologists present theoretical and empirical advances that forge links between the individual and the social aspects of aging. It is must reading for researchers in all gerontologic specialties, and a valuable text for graduate courses in human development, psychology of aging, and other social aspects of aging.