Politics of Maturity

Tanya Loughead

doi:10.5771/9781666907278

Politics of Maturity

1. Auflage 2023

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doi.org/10.5771/9781666907278
ISBN print: 978-1-6669-0726-1
ISBN online: 978-1-6669-0727-8
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

continental philosophy capitalism cultural studies Marxist critique social reproduction theory phenomenology sociopolitical philosophy family feminism queer theory oppression human development

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i–viii Preface i–viii
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
1–8 Chapter One What Is Maturity? 1–8
9–30 Chapter Two Psychoanalytic Approaches to Maturity 9–30
31–46 Chapter Three Failure and Immaturity 31–46
47–64 Chapter Four Maturity as a Political Project 47–64
65–86 Chapter Five The Family Is a Political Structure 65–86
87–100 Chapter Six Maturing as Critical Openness 87–100
101–106 Bibliography 101–106
107–112 Index 107–112
113–114 About the Author 113–114

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