Forever Young: The 'Teen-Aging' of Modern Culture

by Marcel Danesi

Book Overview

The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life.

Written for the general reader and based on five year's worth of interviews with over 200 adolescents and their parents, Danesi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802086209
• ISBN13: 9780802086204
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"