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Why Grow Up?

- Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
Af: Susan Neiman Engelsk Paperback

Why Grow Up?

- Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
Af: Susan Neiman Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780141982496
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141982497
Kategori: Populærfilosofi
Udg. Dato: 28 jan 2016
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 199mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 28 jan 2016
Forfatter(e): Susan Neiman
Forfatter(e) Susan Neiman

Kategori Populærfilosofi

ISBN-13 9780141982496

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 199mm

Udg. Dato 28 jan 2016

Oplagsdato 28 jan 2016

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd