A fresh map of life : the emergence of the third age

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A fresh map of life : the emergence of the third age

Peter Laslett

Macmillan, 1996

2nd ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 293-302

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780333599402

内容説明

Today as never before, most people in the developed world at least, can expect to live to old age. How has society reacted to this shift of mortality? Much of the accepted account of ageing is simply the persistence into our own time of past perceptions. Laslett argues that the Third Age - beyond the breadwinning and child-rearing years - is that of greatest personal fulfilment, the apogee of life. Combining social history, sociology and philosophy, this book provokes new thinking on one of the crucial changes in the modern world.

目次

Preface - A New Division of the Life Course - How Long Can Anyone Go On Living - The Age of Britain as a Country: Britain be Your Age, First Adjuration - The Age of the Present British Population, with a Glimpse into its Future. Britain be Your Age, Second Adjuration - The Rectangular Survival Curve and the Secular Shift in Ageing - The Emergence of the Third Age - Hostile and Demeaning Descriptions of the Elderly - The Insufficiency of the Family Group, in the Past and in the Present - Retirement and its Social History: Kin and Collectivity in Support of the Old - The General Theory of the Third Age - The Obsolescence of the Educational System, and the University of the Third Age - The Burden of the Elderly and Paying for your own Third Age - The Responsibilities of Older British People - Bibliography - Index
巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780333666760

内容説明

What Laslett has done in A Fresh Map of Life...is to give the first clear, full and authoritative statement about a set of changes that are making the modern world utterly different from what has gone before.' - Peter Willmott, Times Literary Supplement; Laslett writes with an attractive mix of realism and idealism, and offers more grounds for hope.' - Galen Strawson, Observer; The reasoning of Peter Laslett's argument in A Fresh Map of Life is that the crown of life should be sought at the time when work is left and children are grown. It is an absorbing and scholarly mingling of social history and philosophy, written in superb prose.' - Barbara Neil, Daily Telegraph; ...are we really happy with the prospect of spending maybe half our adult lives in enforced directionless and low-status idleness? Laslett does not pretend to have more than the glimmerings of an alternative. But he certainly puts a powerful case for the rest of us to start thinking.' - Peter Wilsher, Sunday Times; Changing demography has made the Third Age a major part of the life cycle for most people. There seems little question in this context that the issues raised by Peter Laslett will require and will receiv

目次

Preface - A New Division of the Life Course - How Long Can Anyone Go On Living - The Age of Britain as a Country: Britain be Your Age, First Adjuration - The Age of the Present British Population, with a Glimpse into its Future. Britain be Your Age, Second Adjuration - The Rectangular Survival Curve and the Secular Shift in Ageing - The Emergence of the Third Age - Hostile and Demeaning Descriptions of the Elderly - The Insufficiency of the Family Group, in the Past and in the Present - Retirement and its Social History: Kin and Collectivity in Support of the Old - The General Theory of the Third Age - The Obsolescence of the Educational System, and the University of the Third Age - The Burden of the Elderly and Paying for your own Third Age - The Responsibilities of Older British People - Bibliography - Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA28194042
  • ISBN
    • 0333666763
    • 0333599403
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 311 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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