Product Description: Modern society attempts to avoid aging at all costs. The process of growing older is often likened to a disease to be cured. Philosopher Wilhelm Schmid, in contrast, describes aging as a natural and necessary process. Rather than searching for eternal youth or turning away from the passage of time, he introduces an art of aging that offers opportunities to find enrichment in growing older...read more

Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given - growing older; turning our society's anti-aging bias into a true art of aging that will enable us to live with rather than against the inevitable. In ten practical steps, this book teaches you how to welcome and embrace growing older with gelassenheit ('gue-láh-sen-hite') - the 'feeling and the knowledge that we are cradled in the arms of infinity' - at any age.