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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2020

ISBN (Hardback): 9783030250966

ISBN (eBook): 9783030250973

Full citation:

Mark Schweda, Michael Coors, Claudia Bozzaro (eds), Aging and human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2020

Aging and human nature

Contents

Introduction

aging and human nature – perspectives from philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology

Mark Schweda, Michael Coors, Claudia Bozzaro

1-9

Becoming oneself

on the individuality of aging

Thomas Rentsch

13-25

Aging and personal growth

developmental potentials in old age

Andreas Kruse

27-46

Beyond control

dependence and passivity in old age

Heinz Rüegger

47-57

The aging body as lived history

A phenomenological perspective

Wim Dekkers

61-74

Becoming old

the gendered body and the experience of aging

Maren Wehrle

75-95

Capturing space

aging, (dis-)placement, or making room

Christina Schües

97-109

Living in a temporal perspective

aging between metric and narrative time

Jan Baars

113-127

Embodied time

the narrative refiguration of aging

Michael Coors

129-141

The autumn of my years

aging and the temporal structure of human life

Mark Schweda

143-159

The paradox of human finitude

between fatalism and resistance

Christine Overall

161-169

Responsive aging

an existential view

Frits de Lange

173-190

Providing help

aging and care

Hartmut Remmers

191-204

Birth, progress, and appropriation

aging and generationality from the perspective of historical anthropology

Jörg Zirfas

205-217

Should we do what comes naturally?

the quest for meaning in old age

Ronald J. Manheimer

221-232

Wise old men (and women)

recovering a positive anthropology of aging

Søren Holm

233-240

Vulnerability in old age

the fragility of inappropriately protected interests

Samia Hurst

241-252

Aging with dignity

a philosophical perspective

Ralf Stoecker

253-267

Closer to the world beyond?

spirituality and transcendence in old age

Ralph Kunz

269-283