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This book explores the shapes and boundaries of the emergent field of philosophy of childhood, and its intersections with the history of philosophy, education, pedagogy, literature and film, psychoanalysis, family studies, developmental theory, ethics, history of subjectivity, history of culture, and evolutionary theory.
List of contents
Introduction
David Kennedy and Brock Bahler
The Child in Ancient Philosophy
1. What Is the Sound of a Child Growing Up? The Question of the Child
Thomas J. J. Storme
2. Heraclitus and the Child
Giuseppe Ferarro, translated by Stefano Oliverio and Brock Bahler
3. Childhood, Philosophy, and the Polis: Exclusion and Resistance
Walter Omar Kohan
4. Ethics is for Children: Revisiting Aristotle's Virtue Theory
Andrew Komasinski
The Child in Continental Philosophy
5. The Parent-Child Relation and the Decentered Self: A Phenomenological Basis for an Originary Peace
Brock Bahler
6. Lyotard and the Philosopher Child
Karin Fry
7. Beyond the Developmental Machine: The Politics of Philosophy for Infancy
Tyson Lewis
Philosophy of Childhood and Education
8. Traveling Children: Thinking about Education as Displacement
Daniel Contage
9. The Re-childed Teacher: A Philosophical-Educational Perspective on the Child and Culture
Stefano Oliverio
10. Tyrannized Childhood of the Liberator-Philosopher: J. S. Mill and Poetry as Second Childhood
Joshua M. Hall
Philosophy of Childhood and the Arts
11. Negotiating the Pseudoenvironments of Childhood
Natalie M. Fletcher
12. Mourning, Melancholia, and the Maintenance of the Lost Child: Questioning Tribunella on the Uses of Trauma in Children's Literature
James Stillwaggon
13. Childhood between Literature and Philosophy: Readings of Childhood in Manoel De Barros's Poetry
Bernardina Leal
14. Nobody Knows-Infancy and the Experience of Being Not Unable
Nancy Vansieleghem
The Future of Philosophy of Childhood
15. The Posthuman Child: iii
Karin Murris
About the author
Edited by Brock Bahler and David Kennedy - Contributions by Thomas J. J. Storme; Giuseppe Ferraro; Walter Omar Kohan; Andrew Komasinski; Karin Fry; Tyson Lewis; Daniel Contage; Stefano Oliverio; Joshua M. Hall; Natalie M. Fletcher; James Stillwaggon; Bern
Summary
This book explores the shapes and boundaries of the emergent field of philosophy of childhood, and its intersections with the history of philosophy, education, pedagogy, literature and film, psychoanalysis, family studies, developmental theory, ethics, history of subjectivity, history of culture, and evolutionary theory.
