“Is emerging adulthood a rich and varied period for self-discovery…? Or is it just another term for self-indulgence?” asks Robin Marantz Heinig in this New York Times Magazine article.
Maybe 20-somethings, with their elongated period of “emerging adulthood,” are realizing incrementally the promise of what Marx called species being — a freedom from social alienation and the duress of the struggle to survive, and the emancipation into total personhood. Maybe as long as it seems that way, it is.
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