Dorian Graying
Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2020
243 pages
978-1-351-86804-4 (ISBN)
Description
In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we enter Dorian, the Opera, a re-imagining of his quest in the postmodern world of interactive computers. Finally, we observe Dorian's obsession and plight in our own graying society. This insightful analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young" also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, philosophers, media mavens, and policy-makers.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-351-86804-4 (9781351868044)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
06/1995
1st Edition
Baywood Publishing Company Inc
€129.23
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Book
12/1994
Baywood Publishing Company Inc
€63.32
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Person
Robert Kastenbaum (Author)
Content
Dedication
You Are Young
PART I
Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having?
Tithon and On and On and On ...parables of immortal aging
Dorian in His Own Times
PART II
Intermezzo
Dorian, the Opera
PART III
Dorian in Our Times
PART IV
Epilogue: You Are Old
References
Appendix
You Are Young
PART I
Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having?
Tithon and On and On and On ...parables of immortal aging
Dorian in His Own Times
PART II
Intermezzo
Dorian, the Opera
PART III
Dorian in Our Times
PART IV
Epilogue: You Are Old
References
Appendix
