Quadriga
Hardcover, 224 pages
First Release: 09/16/2011
ISBN: 978-3-86995-011-2
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Heinz Dürr
Growing Old
Society/Culture
What happens when we age?
As chairman of AEG and Deutsche Bahn, among other corporations, Heinz Dürr was one of the most recognized captains of German industry. His seat was always in the first row, he was consulted and sought after, and his needs were attentively met. All at once, his chauffeurs and positions were gone. Age had arrived, and with it the time to ponder what it means to senesce and then to be old. Born in 1933, Heinz Dürr asks a lot of questions. But are the questions his alone? Or could it be that they themselves are ageless? To discover the answers, the author enters into a conversation with Cato the Elder, whom Cicero asked to reflect on the same phenomenon 2,000 years ago when he wrote his fictitious dialogue On Old Age. And lo and behold, the plan works. In a conversation that spans millennia, old age loses its horror and gives up many an eerie secret.
As chairman of AEG and Deutsche Bahn, among other corporations, Heinz Dürr was one of the most recognized captains of German industry. His seat was always in the first row, he was consulted and sought after, and his needs were attentively met. All at once, his chauffeurs and positions were gone. Age had arrived, and with it the time to ponder what it means to senesce and then to be old. Born in 1933, Heinz Dürr asks a lot of questions. But are the questions his alone? Or could it be that they themselves are ageless? To discover the answers, the author enters into a conversation with Cato the Elder, whom Cicero asked to reflect on the same phenomenon 2,000 years ago when he wrote his fictitious dialogue On Old Age. And lo and behold, the plan works. In a conversation that spans millennia, old age loses its horror and gives up many an eerie secret.
