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Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts For An Infantile Age
In Why Grow Up the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with urgent relevance todayBecoming an adult today can seem a grim prospect As you grow up you are told to renounce most of the hopes and dreams of your youth and resign yourself to a life that will be a pale dilution of the adventurous important and enjoyable life you once expected But who wants to do any of that? No wonder we live in a culture of rampant immaturity argues internationally-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman when maturity looks so boringIn Why Grow Up Neiman explores the forces that are arrayed against maturity and shows how philosophy can help us want to grow up Travel both literally and as a metaphor has been seen as a crucial step to
coming of age by thinkers as diverse as Kant Rousseau Hume and Simone de Beauvoir Neiman discusses childhood adolescence sex and culture and asks how the idea of travel can help us build a model of maturity that makes growing up a good option and leaves space in our culture for grown-ups Refuting the widespread belief that the best time of your life is the decade between sixteen and twenty-six she argues that being grown-up is itself an ideal one that is rarely achieved in its entirety but all the more worth striving for
coming of age by thinkers as diverse as Kant Rousseau Hume and Simone de Beauvoir Neiman discusses childhood adolescence sex and culture and asks how the idea of travel can help us build a model of maturity that makes growing up a good option and leaves space in our culture for grown-ups Refuting the widespread belief that the best time of your life is the decade between sixteen and twenty-six she argues that being grown-up is itself an ideal one that is rarely achieved in its entirety but all the more worth striving for
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