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Juvenescence
Robert Pogue Harrison
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Description for Juvenescence
Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
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.
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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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226381961
SKU
V9780226381961
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