Ageing, Insight and Wisdom - (Ageing and the Lifecourse) by Ricca Edmondson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In five succinct chapters Ricca Edmondson provides an eminently valuable and useful exploration of the nature of meaning in later life, both as meaning attributed to old age and as found and realised within it. Mixing together the narratives of people known as friends and colleagues with the accounts of people as research subjects, she provides a welcome overview of issues and themes to which other books on ageing often give scant or only passing regard. Highly recommended. Chris Gilleard, Visiting Research Fellow, UCL, London<br><br>Ricca Edmondson's truly remarkable book demonstrates that wisdom is not a collection of proverbs but an expression of a deeply humane quest for insight which may intensify as people grow older. An inspiring, deeply reflected work that looks beyond the dominant agendas of contemporary ageing. Jan Baars, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ricca Edmondson (died June 2021) was Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After studying philosophy at the University of Lancaster and writing her D.Phil. at Oxford on reasoning in the social sciences, she carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then joined the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specialising in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to life-course meaning and wisdom, and their history, landscapes and social settings.
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