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Chris Phillipson (ed.) (2013). Ageing. Cambridge: Polity Press, 218 pp. ISBN 978 0 7456 3084 7 (hardback)
Ageing is one in a series of books published by Polity Press under the general rubric of “key concepts.” Written by one of the leading figures in social gerontology, the book consists of ten chapters divided into three sections. The first section outlines the socio-demographic nature of ageing, the second social divisions and inequalities in later life, whil
Suzanne R. Kunkel, J. Scott Brown and Frank J. Whittington. (2014). Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course. New York: Springer, 311 pp. ISBN: 978 0 8261 0546 2 (pbk)
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The final stage of human development? Erikson's view of integrity and old age
This paper considers the significance for ageing studies of Erikson’s theory of adult development, particularly his last stage the crisis of ‘integrity’ versus ‘despair’. Because his model assumes a clear pattern of lifelong upward development, culminating with the ‘achievement’ of integrity and wisdom, it can be seen as helping underpin gerontology’s moral
On Age, Authenticity, and the Ageing Subject
This paper is concerned with the relationship between selves as subject positions and the experience of aging. The existing psychological literature on “subjective” and “objective” age, it argues, has failed fully to engage with the idea of subjectivity, focusing instead upon what are ascribed and attributed identities. In contrast to treating age and agein
Foucault, care of the self and the privileged status of old age
This paper draws attention to Foucault’s 1981/82 lecture series on The Hermeneutics of the Self . These contain perhaps the only direct reference Foucault ever made to the topic of old age. In them, he observes how, in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, Greco-Roman philosophy shifted its emphasis from ‘knowing thyself’ to ‘becoming one’s self’