{"product_id":"9780199719204","title":"Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old","description":"Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, \u003cem\u003eReading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at aging as, potentially, a process of poiesis: a creative endeavor of fashioning meaning from the ever-accumulating texts - memories and reflections-that constitute our inner worlds. At its center is the conviction that although we are constantly reading our lives to some degree anyway, doing so in a mindful matter is critical to our development in the second half of life. Drawing on research in numerous disciplines affected by the so-called narrative turn - including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the psychology of aging - authors Randall and McKim articulate a vision of aging that promises to accommodate such time-honored concepts as wisdom and spirituality: one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119940845808,"sku":"9780199719204","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199719204_p0.jpg?v=1763670825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199719204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}