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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
Robert Pogue Harrison
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Description for Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
Hardcover. How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. This book ranges across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that we are older than ever, but Robert Pogue Harrison argues that we are also getting startlingly younger - in looks, mentality, and behavior. We live, he says, in an age of juvenescence. ... Read more
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that we are older than ever, but Robert Pogue Harrison argues that we are also getting startlingly younger - in looks, mentality, and behavior. We live, he says, in an age of juvenescence. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226171999
SKU
V9780226171999
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About Robert Pogue Harrison
Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian literature and chair of graduate studies in Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of Forests, The Dominion of the Dead, and Gardens, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
"I'm not sure that I'd sell my shirt for any living critic. But if there had to be one, it would unquestionably be Harrison, whose study of forests has the true quality of literature, not criticism-it stays with you, like an amiable ghost, long after you have read it. Though more modest in scope, this new book, Gardens, is similarly ... Read more