Infantilised

Infantilised How our culture killed adulthood

Keith J. Hayward

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Subjects
Adulthood.
Emotional maturity.
Adultes.
Maturité affective.
Published
London : Constable 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Keith J. Hayward (author)
Item Description
Originally published: 2024.
Physical Description
432 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781408720585
  • Introduction: Our Infantilised World
  • Part I. Rise of the Kidult
  • 1. Staying Young For Ever: The Infantilisation of Everything
  • 2. Generational Mulch: How Society 'Middled' Itself
  • 3. The Ascendance of Youth
  • Part II. Rule of the Kidult
  • 4. 'Come on, ungrow up': From Lifestyle Advertising to Life Stage Dissolution
  • 5. 'No, I want to be treated like a kid - adulting is hard': The Infantilising Consequences of a Life Lived Online
  • 6. The Infantilisation of Education: How Schools and Universities Turned Themselves into Subsidised Day Care
  • Part III. The Pathologies of Infantilisation
  • 7. The Destructive Dimensions of the Infantilised Self
  • 8. Pantomime Politics: The Stupefaction and Degradation of the Public Sphere
  • Epilogue: Ten Rules for a More Grown-up Society
  • Acknowledgements
  • Images
  • Notes
  • Index

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