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The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; References; Part I The Meaning of Aging; 2 How Old Is Old? Changing Conceptions of Old Age; The Connotations of 'Old'; An Objective Answer to the Question; Not an Age but a Stage?; The Normative Question; Conclusion; References; 3 Gerontology versus Geriatrics: Different Ways of Understanding Ageing and Old Age; Introduction; Geriatrics and Gerontology; A Brief History of Geriatrics and Gerontology: Towards Modernity; Modernity and Later: Past and Present Trends
Ageing Outside the Body: The Rise of Social GerontologyLiquid Ageing? The Collapse of the Modern Paradigm; Conclusion; References; 4 The Physiology and Psychology of Aging: Should Aging Be Successful or Authentic?; Introduction; The Physiology of Aging; Cell Damage; Repair; Oxidative Stress; Inclusion Bodies; Mitochondria; Stochastic Effects; Back to Aging; The Psychology of Aging; Normal and Abnormal Aging ; Theories of Aging; Genome-Based Theories; Non-genetic or Stochastic Theories; The Disposable Soma Theory; Successful Aging; Authentic Aging; Authenticity; Back to Authentic Aging
ConclusionReferences; 5 Concepts of Time in Age and Aging; Introduction; The Emergence of Chronometric Time from Cosmological Narratives; The Conventional Nature of Chronometric Time; Chronometric Age: Exactly Arbitrary?; The Search for Intrinsic Clocks of Aging; Confusing Causalities; Societal Functions of Chronometric Age; Chronometric Time and Lived Time; Narrative Configurations of Time and Aging ; Conclusion; References; 6 The Ageing of People and of Things; Introduction; Purposes and the Passing of Time; The Multiformities of Ageing; And Finally…; References
7 Aging in Religious PerspectiveAging in Three Great Abrahamic Traditions; Aging in Eastern Religious Traditions; Hinduism; Buddhism; Taoism; Confucianism; Why World Religions Matter when it Comes to Aging; References; 8 Aging in Classical Philosophy; Introduction; Plato; Aristotle; Cicero and Seneca; Conclusion; References; 9 Old Age in Existentialist Perspective; Introduction; The Old Person as Other; Old Age as Unrealizable; Death and Old Age; Time in Relation to Old Age; Experience of the Present in Old Age; Relation to the Future in Old Age; Conclusion; References
10 Ageing and Modern Jewish Writing and ThoughtIntroduction: Why Do We Need to Contaminate Ageing with Birth?; Spinoza and the Inclusion of the Excluded
Ageing
in Modern Jewish Writing and Thought; Philip Roth's Contamination of the Chronometric Approach Towards Ageing; References; Part II The Experience of Aging; 11 The Stories of Our Lives: Aging and Narrative; Life and Time; Narrative; Life-Story: Biography and Autobiography; Autobiographical Reflection; Narrative Identity; Aging; References; 12 Coming to Terms with Old Age
and Death; The Attempt to Define Old Age
Ageing Outside the Body: The Rise of Social GerontologyLiquid Ageing? The Collapse of the Modern Paradigm; Conclusion; References; 4 The Physiology and Psychology of Aging: Should Aging Be Successful or Authentic?; Introduction; The Physiology of Aging; Cell Damage; Repair; Oxidative Stress; Inclusion Bodies; Mitochondria; Stochastic Effects; Back to Aging; The Psychology of Aging; Normal and Abnormal Aging ; Theories of Aging; Genome-Based Theories; Non-genetic or Stochastic Theories; The Disposable Soma Theory; Successful Aging; Authentic Aging; Authenticity; Back to Authentic Aging
ConclusionReferences; 5 Concepts of Time in Age and Aging; Introduction; The Emergence of Chronometric Time from Cosmological Narratives; The Conventional Nature of Chronometric Time; Chronometric Age: Exactly Arbitrary?; The Search for Intrinsic Clocks of Aging; Confusing Causalities; Societal Functions of Chronometric Age; Chronometric Time and Lived Time; Narrative Configurations of Time and Aging ; Conclusion; References; 6 The Ageing of People and of Things; Introduction; Purposes and the Passing of Time; The Multiformities of Ageing; And Finally…; References
7 Aging in Religious PerspectiveAging in Three Great Abrahamic Traditions; Aging in Eastern Religious Traditions; Hinduism; Buddhism; Taoism; Confucianism; Why World Religions Matter when it Comes to Aging; References; 8 Aging in Classical Philosophy; Introduction; Plato; Aristotle; Cicero and Seneca; Conclusion; References; 9 Old Age in Existentialist Perspective; Introduction; The Old Person as Other; Old Age as Unrealizable; Death and Old Age; Time in Relation to Old Age; Experience of the Present in Old Age; Relation to the Future in Old Age; Conclusion; References
10 Ageing and Modern Jewish Writing and ThoughtIntroduction: Why Do We Need to Contaminate Ageing with Birth?; Spinoza and the Inclusion of the Excluded
Ageing
in Modern Jewish Writing and Thought; Philip Roth's Contamination of the Chronometric Approach Towards Ageing; References; Part II The Experience of Aging; 11 The Stories of Our Lives: Aging and Narrative; Life and Time; Narrative; Life-Story: Biography and Autobiography; Autobiographical Reflection; Narrative Identity; Aging; References; 12 Coming to Terms with Old Age
and Death; The Attempt to Define Old Age