Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
by Martha C. Nussbaum, Saul Levmore ✦ Review by David Lorimer, August 2018
Martha Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher while Saul Levmore is a former Dean of University of Chicago Law School. In this book of paired essays they consider number of topics: age and control in King Lear as power shifts between the generations, retirement policy in relation to age, ageing and friendship based partly on Cicero, questions raised by the ageing bodies, emotions associated with looking back, romance and sex beyond middle-age (including a discussion of Antony and Cleopatra), inequality, human capabilities in relation to ageing, and questions of inheritance and altruism. The writing is crisp and informed, with sufficient divergences of opinion to make interesting reading for those would like to consider these issues in a thoughtful and reflective manner. Such discussions are all the more important in the light of ageing populations and shifting social policies.
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