Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries

by David Kennedy

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-twentieth century 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498542603
• ISBN13: 9781498542609
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"