Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood

Bracing and angry . . . Hayward combines a taste for cultural theory with a fine polemical style . . . magnificent

Keith Hayward's brilliant and timely enquiry into the Peter Pan-ish realms of deferred adulthood is simultaneously alarming, entertaining, fascinating and significant. Whatever names or letters of the alphabet they are assigned, recent generations seem more and more to embrace without embarrassment props, preferences and points of view that seem closer to the world of play than the world of work. Hayward's descriptions and analysis of this phenomenon are non-judgemental and shiningly insightful. Hugely recommended

Keith Hayward has written one of the most important books of the year

There is so much joy to be had in reading this book, it's tempting to forget that Professor Keith Hayward is just as comfortable discussing Jung, Erikson, Žižek, criminology and emerging cultural theory as he is scrutinising Greta Thunberg, James Corden and the latest vampire movies. But don't be fooled - Infantilised really is for proper grown-ups