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Old age and other essays / Norberto Bobbio ; translated and edited by Allan Cameron.
Van Pelt Library JC265 .B59313 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bobbio, Norberto, 1909-2004
- Standardized Title:
- De senectute e altri scritti autobiografici. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Bobbio, Norberto, 1909-2004.
- Bobbio, Norberto.
- Aging--Philosophy.
- Aging.
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Contents:
- Old Age
- Disgruntled old age 3
- Where is all this supposed wisdom? 5
- Rhetoric and anti-rhetoric 8
- The world of memory 11
- I am still here 15
- After death 18
- Slow motion 23
- Lost opportunities 28
- Other Essays
- To myself 35
- Intellectual autobiography 44
- Reflections of an octogenarian 60
- Reply to my critics 65
- Power and the law 74
- Taking stock 80
- The politics of culture 90.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [97]-104) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745623867
- 0745623875
- OCLC:
- 45829464
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