Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old,Used

Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old,Used

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Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at aging as, potentially, a process of poiesis: a creative endeavor of fashioning meaning from the everaccumulating texts memories and reflectionsthat constitute our inner worlds. At its center is the conviction that although we are constantly reading our lives to some degree anyway, doing so in a mindful matter is critical to our development in the second half of life.Drawing on research in numerous disciplines affected by the socalled narrative turn including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the psychology of aging authors Randall and McKim articulate a vision of aging that promises to accommodate such timehonored concepts as wisdom and spirituality: one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.

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