Ageing, Insight and Wisdom
Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse
Distributed for Bristol University Press
224 pages
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6 3/4 x 9 1/2
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Harry R. Moody
Series editor’s foreword
Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
Studying life-course meaning: an interdisciplinary project
Meaning in lived contexts
Developing the argument
One: Lifecourses, insight and meaning
Meaning in gerontology
Lifetime and insight in gerontological research
Exploring approaches to meaning
Two: Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
The ambiguity of age-consciousness
The struggle for language
Social hegemony and age
The crisis of ethics
Three: Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
Insight and the lifecourse in gerontology
A triad of approaches to meaning
Some approaches to listening
Reconstructive ethnography: exposing communicative forms
Conveying meaning in texts
Time and narrative
Meaning, insight and practice
Four: Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
Life-course meaning: insight and wisdom
Late-life meaning: insight and wisdom
Late-life insight and the human condition: the humanities and artistic production
Mapping meaning in gerontology with work on wisdom
Five: Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Harry R. Moody
Series editor’s foreword
Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
Studying life-course meaning: an interdisciplinary project
Meaning in lived contexts
Developing the argument
One: Lifecourses, insight and meaning
Meaning in gerontology
Lifetime and insight in gerontological research
Exploring approaches to meaning
Two: Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
The ambiguity of age-consciousness
The struggle for language
Social hegemony and age
The crisis of ethics
Three: Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
Insight and the lifecourse in gerontology
A triad of approaches to meaning
Some approaches to listening
Reconstructive ethnography: exposing communicative forms
Conveying meaning in texts
Time and narrative
Meaning, insight and practice
Four: Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
Life-course meaning: insight and wisdom
Late-life meaning: insight and wisdom
Late-life insight and the human condition: the humanities and artistic production
Mapping meaning in gerontology with work on wisdom
Five: Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
References
Index
Review Quotes
Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
“This is a book of rare distinction and import. Tremendously learned yet modest, quietly powerful in its advocacy of meaning and wisdom in gerontology. In a word, liberating.”
Stephen Katz, Trent University (Canada)
“Edmondson’s critical expedition into the wisdom of the ages and keen observations of everyday life in the West of Ireland transform our understanding of aging as artful, ethical, meaningful, and deeply human.”
Jan Baars, University of Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands
“Edmondson’s truly remarkable book demonstrates that wisdom is not a collection of proverbs but an expression of a deeply humane quest for insight which may intensify as people grow older. An inspiring, deeply reflected work that looks beyond the dominant agendas of contemporary aging.”
Chris Gilleard, University College London
“In five succinct chapters Edmondson provides an eminently valuable and useful exploration of the nature of meaning in later life, both as meaning attributed to old age and as found and realized within it. Mixing together the narratives of people known as friends and colleagues with the accounts of people as research subjects, she provides a welcome overview of issues and themes to which other books on aging often give scant or only passing regard. Highly recommended.”
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