Abstract

The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen by Robert Epstein is both a profoundly important and problematic contribution to the literature on the social construction of adolescence. It is important, because it adds new and substantial data from the discipline of psychology, which until the advent of this book has not, as a discipline, ventured into this area to this degree. It is problematic, because it overvalues adulthood and holds a peculiar nostalgia for a world of young people and adults that may never have existed