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For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark C. T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Mark C., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Mark C. Taylor, ©2018.
Temas:
Retirement > Social aspects.
Retirement > Psychological aspects.
Retirees > Conduct of life.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Retraités > Morale pratique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Retirement > Psychological aspects
Retirement > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Completion Søren Kierkegaard (1813
  • 1855)
  • Moment
  • Memento Mori
  • Secrets
  • Existential Pedagogy
  • Mission Accomplished
  • 2. Immanence Friedrich Nietzsche (1844
  • 1900)
  • Ecce Homo, Will to Power
  • Living Death
  • Swallowing the Sea
  • Unhappy Consciousness
  • Bacchanalian Revel
  • 3. Waiting Maurice Blanchot (1907
  • 2003)
  • "The Instant of My Death," Awaiting Oblivion
  • Secrets
  • Life After Death
  • Posthumous Writing
  • Living Death
  • 4. Ghosts Sigmund Freud (1856
  • 1939)
  • Moses and Monotheism, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
  • To Stay or to Leave?
  • Death as Love as Death
  • Surviving God
  • 5. Trembling Jacques Derrida (1930
  • 2004)
  • Beast and the Sovereign, II; "Comment ne pas trembler?"
  • Gifts
  • Parting Words
  • Corpse and Corpus
  • Fear and Trembling
  • 6. Delirium Edgar Allan Poe (1809
  • 1849)
  • Eureka, "Annabel Lee"
  • Orphan
  • Homesickness
  • Ecstasy
  • 7. Wavering Virginia Woolf (1882
  • 1941)
  • Between the Acts
  • Civilization and Its Discontents
  • Moments of Being
  • Interlude: Marking Time
  • Going with the Flow
  • Reflections on/of Ending
  • 8. Intensity Ernest Hemingway (1899
  • 1961)
  • Dangerous Summer
  • Deadly Legacy
  • Real Fake
  • Violence and the Sacred
  • Dancing with Death
  • Marked for Death
  • 9. Speed David Foster Wallace (1962
  • 2008)
  • Pale King, "Good Old Neon"
  • Duplicity
  • Total Noise
  • Bored to Death
  • End of the Line
  • 10. Silence Herman Melville (1819
  • 1891)
  • Confidence-Man, Billy Budd
  • Place Matters
  • Failure of Success
  • Masks
  • "Naught Beyond"
  • 11. Earth Henry David Thoreau (1817
  • 1862)
  • Wild Fruits, "Walking"
  • Retirement
  • Concord
  • Flows
  • Apples
  • Leaves
  • 12. Works Last Lessons Learned
  • P.S.

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