Why Grow up? : : Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile age
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Historical backgrounds : possible worlds -- What is enlightenment? -- Breaking chains -- Infancy, childhood, adolescence -- Busy being born -- Don't get fooled again -- Dissatisfied minds -- Becoming adult -- Education -- Travel -- Work -- Why grow up?
In "Why Grow Up? "the philosopher Susan Neiman asks not just why one should grow up but how. In making her case she draws chiefly from the thought of Kant and Rousseau, who articulated very different theories on the proper way to "come of age." But these thinkers complement each other in seeking a "path between mindlessly accepting everything you're told and mindlessly rejecting it," and in learning to live without despair in a world marked by painful realities and uncertainties.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 231 pages ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374289966
0374289964
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Maturation (Psychology).