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Everyone Dies Young
Marc Aug
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Description for Everyone Dies Young
Hardback. With an ethnologist's understanding of construct and practice, Marc Auge proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. In bold, eye-opening strokes, he isolates age as a physical marker and casts one's youthful approach to the world as the true measure of life's value. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPX; JHMC; JMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 454.
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to ... Read more
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231175883
SKU
V9780231175883
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About Marc Aug
Marc Auge is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is also the author of Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity (1995); The Future (2015); No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (2013); Oblivion (2004); and In the Metro (2002). Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated more than twenty works from French.
Reviews for Everyone Dies Young
This book is a delight to read, a real joy that has its reader looking at the aging process anew and laughing (or at least chuckling) throughout. Auge's insight on aging is edifying, even uplifting, and makes us reconsider the otherwise bleak pronouncement 'everyone dies young' in a new, more hopeful light.
Brian J. Reilly, Fordham University Auge looks ... Read more
Brian J. Reilly, Fordham University Auge looks ... Read more