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Author : Peter Derkx
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031538692
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meaningful Aging from a Humanist Perspective written by Peter Derkx and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joachim Duyndam
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031558054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meaning and Aging written by Joachim Duyndam and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging. The collection aims to enhance and complement the predominantly biomedical and sociological debates and provide a more comprehensive and highly topical view on aging and old age. By purveying a meaning-in-life perspective to the current debate we want to enrich and to deepen the research on aging, thus aspiring to an ideal of meaningful aging. The starting point of this book is a humanistic meaning frame for addressing basic needs of a meaningful existence, such as having goals in life, a sense of self-worth, connectedness with others, moral justification, a certain degree of understanding (comprehensibility), direction and influence with a view to cohesion in life, and not in the least place: (living) pleasure or excitement. Taken together, the essays show that experiencing a meaningful life contributes to one’s mental resilience, conceived as the ability to realize a humane individuality (autonomy) in thinking and acting in situations of adversity and vulnerability, particularly those faced by older people.
Author : Edmondson, Ricca
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847422934
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Valuing older people written by Edmondson, Ricca and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, Valuing older people argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences of older age and presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which they can be understood. Ageing is a process of creating meaning carried out by older people, and is significant for those around them. This book, therefore, considers the impact of social norms and political and economic structures on older people's capacities to age in creative ways. What real obstacles are there to older people's construction of meaningful lives? What is being achieved when they feel they are ageing well? This collection, aimed at students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, offers a lively and constructive response to contemporary challenges involving ageing and how to understand it.
Author : Stuart F. Spicker
Publisher : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aging and the Elderly written by Stuart F. Spicker and published by Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joachim Duyndam
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031558065
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meaning and Aging written by Joachim Duyndam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baars, Jan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447300904
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ageing, meaning and social structure written by Baars, Jan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies.
Author : Thomas R. Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging written by Thomas R. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging has long been of interest to scholars and practitioners in a vast array of academic fields and professions. Thomas R. Cole, Ruth E. Ray, and Robert Kastenbaum have brought together leaders from a variety of academic realms to explore how aging is depicted in the modern era and the effect of these portrayals on individuals and society. --
Author : Hanne Laceulle
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839444225
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aging and Self-Realization written by Hanne Laceulle and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity and virtue. These counter narratives aim to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity, while they make society recognize its senior members as valued participants and moral agents of their own lives.
Author : Edmondson, Ricca
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847422910
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Valuing Older People written by Edmondson, Ricca and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a lively and creative response to contemporary challenges of ageing and how to understand it.
Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190921560
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Humanism written by Anthony B. Pinn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent development. As a system of thought that values human needs and experiences over supernatural concerns, humanism has gained greater attention amid the rapidly shifting demographics of religious communities, especially in Europe and North America. This outlook on the world has taken on global dimensions as well, with activists, artists, and thinkers forming a humanistic response not only to traditional religion, but to the pressing social and political issues of the 21st century. With in-depth, scholarly chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Humanism aims to cover the subject by analyzing its history, its philosophical development, its influence on culture, and its engagement with social and political issues. In order to expand the field beyond more Western-focused works, the Handook discusses humanism as a worldwide phenomenon, with regional surveys that explore how the concept has developed in particular contexts. The Handbook also approaches humanism as both an opponent to traditional religion as well as a philosophy that some religions have explicitly adopted. By both synthesizing the field, and discussing how it continues to grow and develop, the Handbook promises to be a landmark volume, relevant to both humanism and the rapidly changing religious landscape.
