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On Aging: Revolt and Resignation Hardcover – 22 September 1994
by Jean Amery (Author), John D. Barlow (Translator)
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"On Aging", the first of Jean Amry's books after "At the Mind's Limits", is a powerful and profound book about the process of aging and the limited, but real defenses available to those experiencing the process. Each essay covers a set of issues about growing old. "Existence and the Passage of Time" focuses on the way aging makes the old progressively see time as the essence of their existence. "Stranger to Oneself" is a meditation on the ways the aging are alienated from themselves. "The Look of Others" treats social aging - the realization that it is no longer possible to live according to one's potential or possibilities. "Not to Understand the World Anymore" deals with the loss of the ability to understand new developments in the arts and in the changing values of society. The fifth essay, "To Live with Dying," argues that everyone compromises with death in old age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us). Here, Amry's intention, as encapsulated by John D. Barlow, becomes most clear: "to disturb easy and cheap compromises and to urge his readers to their own individual acts of defiance and acceptance."
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" ... if Amery's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirms it. By trying to make sense of our existence, Amery reminds us of why human life is precious." Alan Wolfe, The New Republic "The pessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students and faculty involved with issues of aging." Choice "The writing challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language and expectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their most essential dimensions." Contemporary Gerontology
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Publisher : Indiana University Press (22 September 1994)
Language : English
Hardcover : 162 pages
Dimensions : 14.61 x 1.83 x 21.59 cmCustomer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Almost too real view of aging.Reviewed in the United States on 8 June 2017
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Excellently presented (but depressing).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intense and Dense Expression of the Aging ExperienceReviewed in the United States on 5 July 2014
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Very intense and dense expression of the aging experience that is not for the faint of heart. He was relativity young when he composed this work (his 50's) and knowing how he chose voluntary death a decade or so later is very revealing as one reads his words.
Some aspects were hard to follow, perhaps due to translation, but overall Jean Amery puts often elegant ways of expressing the reality of aging that often clarifys my own experience.
But I try not read to this when my mood is already low; while at other times it is communing with a kindred spirit
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William Davis
3.0 out of 5 stars Exceedingly DepressingReviewed in the United States on 18 March 2014
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I bought this book based on a review of another book that mentioned Jean Amery. My opinion of Mr. Amery's writing is considerably less positive than that of the reviewer who led me to the book.
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Ted
2.0 out of 5 stars Grim and somewhat disappointingReviewed in the United States on 7 June 2010
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This book is a compilation of several radio lectures that the German- or Austrian-born author (the name is a pseudonym) delivered over French radio in, if memory serves, the 1950s. I confess to have made it only through the first section and part of the second. The tone is extremely bleak, the prose is difficult (all French prose defies easy translation, IMHO, and comes out sounding imprecise and windy), and the ultimate message is pretty unrewarding: It turns out that old age is even worse than you feared! Don't pick up this book looking for any solace.
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