Why Grow Up? : Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age Condition:Good Reading is a human invention

Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new

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The Middle Ages also saw the pursuit of alchemy—the magical transformation of base materials—which led to a fascination with the occult

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Why Grow Up? : Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age Condition:Good Reading is a human inventionA wry and witty meditation on modernitys obsession with youth and its denigration of maturityIn 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 youre told and