The Long Life

ISBN: 9780199592562 出版年：2007 页码：361 Small, Helen Oxford University Press

Introduction 1. The Platonic Threshhold (Plato and Thomas Mann) 2. On Seeing the End (Aristotle and King Lear) 3. Narrative Unity of Lives (Epicureanism, the Narrative View, Saul Bellow) 4. The Power of Choosing (Prudential Life Planning, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith) 5. Where Self-Interest Ends (Derek Parfit and Balzac) 6. The Bounded Life (Adorno's Metaphysics, Dickens, Beckett) 7. Now or Never (Bernard Williams, J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth) 8. Evolved Senescence (Evolutionary theory, Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue) Conclusion