A Fresh Map of Life

What Laslett has done in A Fresh Map of Life...is to give the first clear, full and authoritative statement about a set of changes that are making the modern world utterly different from what has gone before.' - Peter Willmott, Times Literary Supplement; Laslett writes with an attractive mix of realism and idealism, and offers more grounds for hope.' - Galen Strawson, Observer; The reasoning of Peter Laslett's argument in A Fresh Map of Life is that the crown of life should be sought at the time when work is left and children are grown. It is an absorbing and scholarly mingling of social history and philosophy, written in superb prose.' - Barbara Neil, Daily Telegraph; ...are we really happy with the prospect of spending maybe half our adult lives in enforced directionless and low-status idleness? Laslett does not pretend to have more than the glimmerings of an alternative. But he certainly puts a powerful case for the rest of us to start thinking.' - Peter Wilsher, Sunday Times; Changing demography has made the Third Age a major part of the life cycle for most people. There seems little question in this context that the issues raised by Peter Laslett will require and will receiv

ISBN 0333666763   Pages 328 ISBN13 9780333666760 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 506 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 223 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 145 Publication date 22 Apr 1996   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 305.260941   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of Tables
		List of Figures
		Preface
1		A New Division of the Life Course		1
2		How Long Can Anyone Go on Living?		12
3		The Age of Britain as a Country: Britain Be Your Age! - First Adjuration		34
4		The Age of the Present British Population, with a Glimpse into its Future: Britain Be Your Age! - Second Adjuration		50
5		The Rectangular Survival Curve and the Secular Shift in Ageing		74
6		The Emergence of the Third Age		99
7		Hostile and Demeaning Descriptions of the Elderly		123
8		The Insufficiency of the Family Group - in the Past and in the Present		137
9		Retirement and its Social History: Kin and Collectivity in Support of the Old		155
10		The General Theory of the Third Age		177
11		The Obsolescence of the Educational System; the University of the Third Age		203
12		The Burden of the Elderly and Paying for Your Own Third Age		231
13		The Responsibilities of Older British People		256
		Notes		267
		Bibliography		293
		Index		303

'What Laslett has done in A Fresh Map of Life...is to give the first clear, full and authoritative statement about a set of changes that are making the modern world utterly different from what has gone before.' - Peter Willmott, Times Literary Supplement 'Laslett writes with an attractive mix of realism and idealism, and offers more grounds for hope.' - Galen Strawson, Observer 'The reasoning of Peter Laslett's argument in A Fresh Map of Life is that the crown of life should be sought at the time when work is left and children are grown. It is an absorbing and scholarly mingling of social history and philosophy, written in superb prose.' - Barbara Neil, Daily Telegraph '... are we really happy with the prospect of spending maybe half our adult lives in enforced directionless and low-status idleness? Laslett does not pretend to have more than the glimmerings of an alternative. But he certainly puts a powerful case for the rest of us to start thinking.' - Peter Wilsher, Sunday Times 'Changing demography has made the Third Age a major part of the life cycle for most people. There seems little question in this context that the issues raised by Peter Laslett will require and will receive very serious attention. This is an important book for all of us but especially for those in or approaching the Third Age.' - Peter McDonald, Family Matters, Australian Institute of Family Studies

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