Dorian Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?

by Robert Kastenbaum

Overview

In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we enter Dorian, the Opera, a re-imagining of his quest in the postmodern world of interactive computers. Finally, we observe Dorian's obsession and plight in our own graying society. This insightful analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young" also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, philosophers, media mavens, and policy-makers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351868044
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/2020
Series:	Society and Aging Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	243
File size:	343 KB

About the Author

Robert Kastenbaum (Author)

Table of Contents

Dedication

You Are Young

PART I
Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having?
Tithon and On and On and On ...parables of immortal aging
Dorian in His Own Times

PART II
Intermezzo
Dorian, the Opera

PART III
Dorian in Our Times

PART IV
Epilogue: You Are Old
References
Appendix