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We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to defer. Time is a freedom, age a constraint. Augé proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. In bold, eye-opening strokes, he isolates age as a physical marker and casts one's youthful approach to the world as the true measure of life's value.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Everyone Dies Young
• Author: Marc Augé
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780231175890
• ISBN: 0231175892
• ID: 02912584
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 128 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 139 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2016

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