Publication

2001-05-01 - Polity Press

Language

English

Word Count

30,000 words, Guess

Page Count

120 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing2971542
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001021045
  • OCLC Control Number45829464
  • Better World Books9780745623870
  • Open LibraryOL7956288M

Classifications

  • LCCJC265 .B59313 2001
  • LCCJC265.B59313 2001

Description

"This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Amrey, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times. Born in 1909, Bobbio has lived through the major events of the past century, and his experiences of Fascism, Communism and the Cold War lend his reflections a melancholy that distinguishes them from earlier eulogies on old age and death. Bobbio's conclusions are often sobering, yet his investigations into memory and mortality is written with both humour and emotion."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Old age is not an academic subject, but I am an old academic.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Old Age and Other EssaysPaperbackPolity Press2001-05-01

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