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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...