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WITH SUSAN NEIMAN The young years are supposedly the most beautiful, the strongest. When you meet a twenty-something, you want to tell her “enjoy it”. But aren’t we then implying that afterwards, things go downhill, that adult life is synonymous with seriousness, disillusionment and boredom? The whole difficulty is knowing what growing up means. Susan Neiman is an American philosopher, a specialist in the Enlightenment, and the author of Growing Up, a eulogy to adulthood in an era that infantilizes us. Among other things, she denounces the contradictory injunction to stay young and to be realistic. Why do we idealize youth? Does becoming an adult necessarily imply giving up one’s ideals? Can we grow up without betraying ourselves? Also with Cécile Van De Velde, sociologist References: Susan Neiman, Growing Up, Praise of Adulthood in an Age That Infantilizes Us, Premier Parallèle, 2021 Susan Neiman, Thinking Evil, Another History of Philosophy, Premier Parallèle, 2022 Cécile Van De Velde, Becoming an Adult; Comparative Sociology of Youth in Europe, PUF, 2008 Plato, The Republic, Book 1. Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social media! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr