Ch. 15: Aging: “Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?”
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This chapter appears in the book, How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance. Edited by Greg Colon Semenza and Garrett A. Sullivan.
Chapter abstract: The two epigraphs above represent significantly disparate musings on the benefits or pitfalls of the experience of aging. From as early in my post-secondary education as I can remember, I have tended to gravitate toward the former, less sympathetic mindset about getting old. While I was still a teenaged undergraduate, I was keenly aware that I would invariably feel the effects of time in a painful way, and I routinely entertained fears that I would, someday, cease to be. I wasn’t sure about why I had these anxieties, or whether others shared similar fears, but I was aware of the shaping influence they had on my life. I suffered my first full-blown “midlife” crisis at 25, and spent a considerable amount of time negotiating the ways in which art, literature, music, film, and other humanistic endeavors engaged ideas of both growing up and growing old.
ISBN
978-1-137-51152-2
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature
City
New York
Keywords
Higher education, Work-life balance, Aging, Humanities
Disciplines
Higher Education | Higher Education and Teaching
Recommended Citation
Lorentzen, Eric G., "Ch. 15: Aging: “Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?”" (2015). English & Linguistics Books. 16.
https://scholar.umw.edu/elc_books/16