Everyone Dies Young - Time Without Age

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 defer. Time is a freedom, age a constraint. Augé 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.

About the author

Marc Augé, geboren 1935, ist Hauptvertreter einer "Ethnologie des Nahen". Er lehrte Anthropologie an der Pariser École des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales, deren Präsident er viele Jahre war.

Summary

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.

Report

"Augé looks at how people - himself included - confront their age at different moments in their lives; what it means to 'assume' one's age and how events mark our lives. There are in our time no writers who possess similar ease and command in turning autobiography into anthropology." - Tom Conley, Harvard University

Product details

• Authors: Marc Aug, Marc Aug?, Marc Auge, Marc Augé, Jody Gladding
• Assisted by: Jody Gladding (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780231175890
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17589-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Socia; European Perspectives (COUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychology of ageing, Popular philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, anthropology; adulthood and aging