Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age by Susan Neiman

Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Susan Neiman

240 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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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...

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