Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-274) and index
1. Chronometric Regimes : The Life Course, Aging, and Time. Historical backgrounds of the chronometric life course -- Chronometric life courses : beyond standardization and de-standardization -- Care and its chronometric regimes -- Chronometric aging : exactly arbitrary
2. Exclusion, Activism, and Eternam Youth. From natural passivity to activating activities for older people -- The emergence of an anti-aging sulture -- The much-desired long and invulnerable life : magic and magic technology
3. A Passion for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Againg -- Early Greek thought about the life course -- the search for wisdom and the emergence of an art of life -- Cicero and the stoic art of living in old age
4. Modern Science, the Discovery of a Personal History, and Aging Arithmetically. Aging in a world of meaningful repetition -- (Ir)reversible time and the senescing of organisms -- The idealization of science and the epistemological reduction of time -- Teh struggle for a fuller experience of time
5. Aging and Narrative Identities. Embedding aging in narratives -- A modest necessity of stories
6. Perspectives - Toward an Art of Aging. Interhuman vulnerability and the dignity of "unsuccessful" againg -- Toward an art of againg : beyond conventional wisdom -- Toward an art of aging : living in different times -- Toward an art of aging : beyond longer lives
Introduction : the chronocratic emperor has no clothes