Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse

Ricca Edmondson

doi:10.46692/9781847426024

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xi

Series editor’s foreword
pp xii-xii

Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
pp 1-26

one - Lifecourses, insight and meaning
pp 27-64

two - Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
pp 65-96

three - Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
pp 97-154

four - Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
pp 155-196

five - Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
pp 197-206

References
pp 207-234

Index
pp 235-244

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