Non-fiction
Decenter Everything: The Unconventional Approach to Eldering in an Age of Immaturity
Poetry Chapel Press
2025
Abstract
Humankind has not been here before. We are now living decades longer than our ancestors. We have never been healthier, wealthier and soul-stunted.As a result, we have an abundance of older people, but very few authentic elders.
Decenter Everything dares us to question the conventional script of later life that drifts from parenting to retirement to death. For the sake of the world, we must mature towards authentic eldering through intentional displacement; this means decentering anything that demands center-stage - including ourselves.
Through poetry, prose, research, and reflection Decenter Everything proposes five domains requiring decentering: God, being heard, knowledge, death, and consumption.
For anyone sensing the hollowness of our elderless culture, here lies a provocative path to reimagining a soulful and sustainable future.
Details
- Title
- Decenter Everything: The Unconventional Approach to Eldering in an Age of Immaturity
- Authors
- David Tensen (Author)
- Publication details
- 152 pages
- Publisher
- Poetry Chapel Press
- Date published
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9780645607246
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Graduate Research School
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991144639702621
- Output Type
- Non-fiction
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