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Article: Danesi, Marcel. Forever Young: The 'Teen-Aging' of Modern Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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DANESI, Marcel. Forever Young: The 'Teen-Aging' of Modern Culture Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 139pp. $45.00 (h), $21.95 (p).
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 look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life. Written for the general reader and based on interviews with over 200 adolescents and their parents. Danesi begins by asserting that one of the early causes of this crystallization of adolescence as an age category can be traced back to ...