A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age - Couverture rigide

Laslett, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333666763 ISBN 13 : 9780333666760

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

What Laslett has done in A Fresh Map of Life...is to give the first clear, full and authoritative statement about a set of changes that are making the modern world utterly different from what has gone before.' - Peter Willmott, Times Literary Supplement; Laslett writes with an attractive mix of realism and idealism, and offers more grounds for hope.' - Galen Strawson, Observer; The reasoning of Peter Laslett's argument in A Fresh Map of Life is that the crown of life should be sought at the time when work is left and children are grown. It is an absorbing and scholarly mingling of social history and philosophy, written in superb prose.' - Barbara Neil, Daily Telegraph; ...are we really happy with the prospect of spending maybe half our adult lives in enforced directionless and low-status idleness? Laslett does not pretend to have more than the glimmerings of an alternative. But he certainly puts a powerful case for the rest of us to start thinking.' - Peter Wilsher, Sunday Times; Changing demography has made the Third Age a major part of the life cycle for most people. There seems little question in this context that the issues raised by Peter Laslett will require and will receiv

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333666763
• ISBN 13: 9780333666760
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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