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Why Grow Up? - Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age (Paperback)
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Why Grow Up? - Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age (Paperback)
Series: Philosophy in Transit
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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 philosopher Susan Neiman, when maturity
looks so boring. In 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.
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