This article is devoted to the reflections on the specific nature of old age derived from the author’s inspirations with the categories found in the works by Zygmunt Bauman, Tadeusz Sławek and Krzysztof Maliszewski. Those are reflections on the phenomenon of ageing which is anchored in the post-modern culture. The author suggests that old age should be perceived not only as a social and demographic phenomenon occurring on the socio-cultural, economic, political or historical ground, but also as personal experience, an individual project, time in life experienced as a period without coercion but with the right to live one’s own way, in one’s own rhythm and on one’s own.
This article is devoted to the reflections on the specific nature of old age derived from the author’s inspirations with the categories found in the works by Zygmunt Bauman, Tadeusz Sławek and Krzysztof Maliszewski. Those are reflections on the phenomenon of ageing which is anchored in the post-modern culture. The author suggests that old age should be perceived not only as a social and demographic phenomenon occurring on the socio-cultural, economic, political or historical ground, but also as personal experience, an individual project, time in life experienced as a period without coercion but with the right to live one’s own way, in one’s own rhythm and on one’s own.
W artykule została podjęła próba dookreślenia tzw. „nowej” starości, którą autorka nazywa metaforycznie „kolażowo-patchworkową” starością. W kontekście tych rozważań ukazana została rola i znaczenie uniwersytetu trzeciego wieku w realizacji potrzeb współczesnych seniorek i seniorów. Potrzeby te zostały ujęte w sposób wielowymiarowy, przez pryzmat trzech wyróżnionych przez Autorkę dyna- mik: poszukiwanie i poznanie, transformacja i transgresja oraz przemijanie i utrata. Ilustracją podjętych rozważań są zamieszczone w tekście refleksje słuchaczek i słuchaczy Uniwersytetu Trzeciego Wieku w Uniwersytecie Śląskim, w Katowicach.
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The article attempts to define the so-called “new” old age, which the author metaphorically calls “collage and patchwork” old age. In the context of these considerations, the role and importance of the University of the Third Age in meeting the needs of modern seniors were shown. These needs have been captured in a multidimensional way, through the prism of three dynamics distinguished by the author: search and cognition, transformation and transgression, and passing and loss. The reflections of the University of the Third Age students at the University of Silesia in Katowice included in the text, are an illustration of the considerations undertaken.
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