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Why Grow Up?
- Author
- Susan Neiman
- Narrator
- Leslie Howard
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 12 June 2019
- Run Time
- 5 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing life as a downhill process, we prepare young people to expect—and demand—very little from it. In Why Grow Up? she challenges our culture of permanent adolescence, turning to thinkers including Kant, Rousseau, and Arendt to find a model of maturity that is not a matter of resignation. In growing up, we move from the boundless trust of childhood to the peculiar mixture of disappointment and exhilaration that comes with adolescence. Maturity, however, means finding the courage to live in a world of painful uncertainty without giving in to dogma or despair. A grown-up, Neiman writes, helps to move the world closer to what it should be while never losing sight of what it is.
Why Grow Up? is a witty and concise argument for the value of maturity as a subversive ideal: a goal rarely achieved entirely, and all the more worth striving for.
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- Author
- Susan Neiman
- Narrator
- Leslie Howard
- Duration
- 5 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781630154134
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Psychology
Synopsis
Our culture is obsessed with youth—and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing life as a downhill process, we prepare young people to expect—and demand—very little from it. In Why Grow Up? she challenges our culture of permanent adolescence, turning to thinkers including Kant, Rousseau, and Arendt to find a model of maturity that is not a matter of resignation. In growing up, we move from the boundless trust of childhood to the peculiar mixture of disappointment and exhilaration that comes with adolescence. Maturity, however, means finding the courage to live in a world of painful uncertainty without giving in to dogma or despair. A grown-up, Neiman writes, helps to move the world closer to what it should be while never losing sight of what it is.Why Grow Up? is a witty and concise argument for the value of maturity as a subversive ideal: a goal rarely achieved entirely, and all the more worth striving for.
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