Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
by:
Susan Neiman (author)
Our culture is obsessed with youth--and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by...
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Our culture is obsessed with youth--and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing life as a downhill process, we prepare young people to expect--and demand
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780374536145 (0374536147)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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