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Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood

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A SHREWD AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PREDICATED ON THE PRIMACY OF YOUTH

Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsible child in constant need of instruction and protection?

Noticing society's creeping descent into infantilisation is one thing, however understanding the roots and causes of the phenomenon is not quite so easy. But in this topical and vitally important new work, cultural theorist and academic, Dr Keith Hayward, exposes the deep social, psychological and political dangers of a world characterised by denuded adult autonomy.

But importantly Infantilised is no one-dimensional, unsympathetic critique. Brimming with anecdotes and examples that span everything from the normalisation of infantilism on reality TV to the rise of a new class of political 'infantocrat', this comprehensive book also offers an insightful and at times humorous account of infantilism's seductive appeal, and details some suggestions for avoiding some of the pitfalls associated with our increasingly infantilised world.

Critics Review

Keith Hayward's brilliant and timely enquiry into the Peter Pan-ish realms of deferred adulthood is simultaneously alarming, entertaining, fascinating and significant. Whatever 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
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
Author Keith Hayward
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 12 hours and 59 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781408720608
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Corruption in politics, government and society, Popular culture, Society and culture: general
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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