How to Age (The School of Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250058988 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan, and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, and other publications. She has written three books, including The Human Voice (Bloomsbury). ANNE KARPF is a writer, medical sociologist and award-winning journalist. She teaches at London Metropolitan University.
In How to Age, learn how ageing isn't about your wardrobe or physical fitness, but a determination to live fully at every age and stage of life.. She argues that if we can recognize growing older as an inevitable part of the human condition, then the great challenge of ageing turns out to be none other than the challenge of living. In How to Age, sociologist and award-winning journalist Anne Karpf urges us to radically change our narrative.Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, Karpf draws upon revealing case studies to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE.Society has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old age in modern life is widely viewed as either a time of inevitable decline or something to be resisted, denied or overcome
“Karpf's pithy and cogent treatise calls for us to embrace 'aging as a lifelong process.'Karpf cites fascinating and diverse examples that confirm the fact that age helps us discover 'enduring sources of meaning.'” Booklist“In an age of moral and practical confusions, the self-help book is crying out to be redesigned and rehabilitated. The School of Life announces a rebirth with a series that examines the great issues of life, including money, sanity, work, technology, and the desire to alter the world for the better.” Alain De Botton, The School of Life Series Editor“Self-Help Books for the Rest of Us.” The New York Times“The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge.”
"I haven't finished the book yet (sidetracked by another book" according to phyllis. I haven't finished the book yet (sidetracked by another book!), but it is all about reframing things and realizing that we've been aging since day 1. And at every turn in life there are losses and debilities, not just once we pass middle age. So far I'm liking the book very much. It gives me pause.. Clear, thoughtful introduction to age OwlSong Those looking for a typical self-help book with bullet points & how-to steps will probably find this small but rich volume disappointing. If so, they'll be missing something very good indeed. What Anne Karpf has written works as both personal essay & a reflective study of the clichés & realities of ageing. It doesn't presume to have all the answers (although it offers many intelligent ideas as excellent starting points) -- instead, it invites the readers to re-consider their notions of age, which were probably absorbed from popular culture & never really examined or questioned. Much of what she says may seem like common sense but as w. 'Grow Old Along with me, the best is yet to be' This book presents an idea and ideal of human aging that is different from the one most people hold. As Anne Karpf most people believe aging begins at a certain specific age, forty, fifty, sixty- five, seventy. In fact we begin aging from conception and our ideas of this aging are transformed in time. The young eager to grow up and have the freedom from restrictions are one pole of this. The young dreading the responsibility of adulthood and wishing to remain in a childhood world are another aspect. Karpf details the dread of going old so pervasive in our culture, and the various means we try to halt or reverse this process. The negative view