Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood
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Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood by Keith J Hayward
Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood is the definitive grown-up's guide to a cultural landscape predicated on the primacy and constancy of youth.
Keith Hayward's brilliant and timely enquiry into the Peter Pan-ish realms of deferred adulthood is simultaneously alarming, entertaining, fascinating and significantWhatever names or letters of the alphabet they are assigned, recent generations seem more and more to embrace without embarrassment props, preferences and points of view that seem closer to the world of play than the world of work. Hayward's descriptions and analysis of this phenomenon are non-judgemental and shiningly insightful. Hugely recommended -- Stephen Fry
Keith Hayward has written one of the most important books of the year -- Rod Liddle * Sunday Times *
Bracing and angry . . . Hayward combines a taste for cultural theory with a fine polemical style . . . magnificent -- Nick Cohen
There is so much joy to be had in reading this book, it's tempting to forget that Professor Keith Hayward is just as comfortable discussing Jung, Erikson, Žižek, criminology and emerging cultural theory as he is scrutinising Greta Thunberg, James Corden and the latest vampire movies. But don't be fooled - Infantilised really is for proper grown-ups -- Professor Emeritus David Wilson
Keith Hayward has written one of the most important books of the year -- Rod Liddle * Sunday Times *
Bracing and angry . . . Hayward combines a taste for cultural theory with a fine polemical style . . . magnificent -- Nick Cohen
There is so much joy to be had in reading this book, it's tempting to forget that Professor Keith Hayward is just as comfortable discussing Jung, Erikson, Žižek, criminology and emerging cultural theory as he is scrutinising Greta Thunberg, James Corden and the latest vampire movies. But don't be fooled - Infantilised really is for proper grown-ups -- Professor Emeritus David Wilson
Keith Hayward is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely in the areas of criminological theory, spatial and social theory, visual and popular culture, and terrorism and fanaticism. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, the most recent being, Cultural Criminology (2018), a four-volume edited collection for Routledge's Major Works series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408720585 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408720582 |
| Title | Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood |
| Author | Keith J Hayward |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2025-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
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