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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 June 1995
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780895031693
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 498 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. This work focuses on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". It is an analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young", and also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, and philosophers.
MoreLong description:
In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we enter Dorian, the Opera, a re-imagining of his quest in the postmodern world of interactive computers. Finally, we observe Dorian's obsession and plight in our own graying society. This insightful analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young" also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, philosophers, media mavens, and policy-makers.
MoreTable of Contents:
Dedication
You Are Young
PART I
Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having?
Tithon and On and On and On ...parables of immortal aging
Dorian in His Own Times
PART II
Intermezzo
Dorian, the Opera
PART III
Dorian in Our Times
PART IV
Epilogue: You Are Old
References
Appendix
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