Philosophy of Childhood Today

Höfundur: Brock Bahler (Útgáfa: 1)
Philosophy of Childhood Today

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Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal Centuries of Childhood introduced the master-concept of childhood as a social and cultural invention, thereby weakening the strong grip of biological metaphors on imagining childhood.

Today, while philosophy of childhood per se is a relatively boundaryless field of inquiry, it is one that has clear distinctions from history, anthropology, sociology, and even psychology of childhood. This volume of essays, which represents the work of a diverse, international set of scholars, explores the shapes and boundaries of the emergent field, and the possibilities for mediating encounters between its multiple sectors, including history of philosophy, philosophy of education, pedagogy, literature and film, psychoanalysis, family studies, developmental theory, ethics, history of subjectivity, history of culture, and evolutionary theory.

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Útgefandi
Bloomsbury USA
ISBN
9781498542616
Print ISBN
9781498542609
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Brock Bahler
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2016-10-28
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100

Kaflar

  • Title Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • What Is the Sound of a Child Growing Up? The Question of the Child
  • Heraclitus and the Child
  • Childhood, Philosophy, and the Polis
  • Ethics is for Children
  • The Parent-Child Relation and the Decentered Self
  • Lyotard and the Philosopher Child
  • Beyond the Developmental Machine
  • Traveling Children
  • The Re-childed Teacher
  • Tyrannized Childhood of the Liberator-Philosopher
  • Negotiating the Pseudoenvironments of Childhood
  • Mourning, Melancholia, and the Maintenance of the Lost Child
  • Childhood between Literature and Philosophy
  • Nobody Knows— Infancy and the Experience of Being not Unable
  • The Posthuman Child: iii
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors