· Like all of Robert Pogue Harrison's books, Juvenescence ranges brilliantly across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the scientific concept of neotony, or the retention of juvenile characteristics through adulthood, and extending it into Edition description: Reprint. Like all of Robert Pogue Harrison's books, Juvenescence ranges brilliantly across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the scientific concept of neotony, or the retention of juvenile characteristics through adulthood, and extending it into the cultural realm, Harrison argues that youth is essential for /5(13). · One of Harrison's concerns is that the technological pace of our culture -- our "young" society, so to speak, is blurring that essential continuity with the past; this is an aspect (among several others) of the condition he calls juvenescence, creating 4/5.
Boston University Libraries. Services. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share. Social. Mail. Juvenescence: a cultural history of our age / Robert Pogue Harrison. How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , X.
Like all of Robert Pogue Harrison's books, Juvenescence ranges brilliantly across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the scientific concept of neotony, or the retention of juvenile characteristics through adulthood, and extending it into. Like all of Robert Pogue Harrison’s books, Juvenescence ranges brilliantly across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the scientific concept of neotony, or the retention of juvenile characteristics through adulthood, and extending it into the cultural realm, Harrison argues that youth is essential for culture’s innovative drive and flashes of genius. Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age Robert Pogue Harrison. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Dominion of the Dead.
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