Table of Contents

Preface 1. Questioning Childhood Whose Child? Which Adult? The Western Construction of Childhood Theorizing Childhood Adult-Child Dialogue The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity 2. The Primordial Child The Divine Child The Romantic Child Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity 3. The Invention of Adulthood Adultism and Models of the Self The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship 4. Childhood and the Intersubject Boundary Work The Ego Dethroned The Emergence of the Intersubject Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age The Dialectics of Reason and Desire The Privileged Stranger 5. Reimagining School The Purposes of Schooling The Space of Dialogue The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living The Dark and the Light Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

David Kennedy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.

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"A work of impressive historical sweep, psychological depth, and great philosophical sensitivity,

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