Adult Life: Aging, Responsibility, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Author:   John Russon
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   237
Publication Date:   01 August 2020
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Author:   John Russon
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438479514


ISBN 10:   1438479514
Pages:   237
Publication Date:   01 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Vignette #1: The Generation Gap Vignette #2: Worldly Engagement Vignette #3: Mortality and Character The Plan of the Book Part I: Human Experience and the Meaning of Adulthood 1. Perception and Its Norms Perception and Possibility Reality and Maturity Character and Aging Part II: The Form of Adult Life: Maturity and Aging 2. Character and Reality Exposure: Outer and Inner Healthy Developments of Character Responsibility and Happiness 3. Aging Time: Indifferent and Personal On Aging The Spatiality of Adulthood Part III: The Content of Adult Life: Adult Occupations 4. Domains of Settlement and Engagement Intimacy: The Family Economics: The Market Politics: The State 5. Bearing Witness: Honesty and Wisdom Art Religion Philosophy: Wonder, Science, and Wisdom Appendix: Notes for Further Study Bibliography Index

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John Russon is one of the best phenomenologists in contemporary philosophy. He uses the phenomenological method to cast light on some of the most important issues in our lives. In this book, Russon offers a sensitive description of what it is like to navigate the world as an adult, displaying the ways in which adulthood involves a development of our relations with the world, one another, and ourselves. In doing so, he allows us to see afresh the ways in which our lives unfold over time. - Todd May, author of Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher


"""Russon's strength, in Adult Life, is his unwavering commitment to presenting the challenges of aging and the norms that must be respected if one is to age in a socially healthy manner. He accomplishes this with both conceptual and affective force."" — Symposium ""John Russon is one of the best phenomenologists in contemporary philosophy. He uses the phenomenological method to cast light on some of the most important issues in our lives. In this book, Russon offers a sensitive description of what it is like to navigate the world as an adult, displaying the ways in which adulthood involves a development of our relations with the world, one another, and ourselves. In doing so, he allows us to see afresh the ways in which our lives unfold over time."" — Todd May, author of Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher"


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John Russon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and the Director of the Toronto Summer Seminar in Philosophy. He is the author of Bearing Witness to Epiphany: Persons, Things, and the Nature of Erotic Life and Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life, both also published by SUNY Press.

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