Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age Author:Susan Neiman Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Penguin (28 Jan. 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141982497 ISBN-13: 9780141982496 Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm Book Deion 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
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In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologistJonathan Haidt examines the worlds philosophical wisdom through thelens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understandingof enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others dounto you, or What doesnt kill you makes you stronger-can enrich andeven transform our lives.