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21%OFFSusan Neiman - Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age - 9780141982496 - V9780141982496
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Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

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Description for Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age Paperback. Explores the forces that are arrayed against maturity, and shows how philosophy can help us want to grow up. This book 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
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 today Becoming 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141982496
SKU
V9780141982496
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About Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman is an American philosopher, cultural commentator and essayist. She writes for wide-ranging international audiences on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. Formerly a professor of philosophy at Yale University and Tel Aviv University, she is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Her previous books, translated into many languages, ... Read more

Reviews for Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
Neiman comes as a welcome relief in the confusing sea of thinkers. Her language is natural and familiar and her style simple and smooth. She has a keen insight into the history of thought ... She makes us see Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant in a completely new light ... This is a book on parenting as much as it ... Read more

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