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Politics of Maturity
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2023
Summary
What is maturity? In answering this question, Tanya Loughead shows how maturity has traditionally been defined in a conservative fashion—as a patriarchal, heteronormative, pro-nuclear family project. Politics of Maturity challenges existing notions of maturity by raising fundamental questions about society and its structure. Which structures and experiences help us to mature, and which ones block us from maturing? How can we redefine what it means to be a mature person at this moment of capitalist devastation and climate catastrophe?
This book tackles maturity not merely as a problem of individual personality, but as a political and philosophical problem that requires revolutionary rethinking and redefinition. It envisions maturity as collective, liberationist enterprise that requires us to see and live differently. A progressive vision of maturity must define “progress” anew and prepare a ground that cultivates critical, open-minded thinkers.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0726-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0727-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
114
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One What Is Maturity? No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter Two Psychoanalytic Approaches to Maturity No access Pages 9 - 30
Chapter Three Failure and Immaturity No access Pages 31 - 46
Chapter Four Maturity as a Political Project No access Pages 47 - 64
Chapter Five The Family Is a Political Structure No access Pages 65 - 86
Chapter Six Maturing as Critical Openness No access Pages 87 - 100
