Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

In the eight essays that make up this volume David Kennedy offers provocative insights into what it means, has meant, and might mean in the future, to be a child. As we read him we feel the excitement of discovering truths that we want to think we knew all along. This book includes six essays on images of childhood and two extended reports on philosophical discussions he had with two groups of children. In each of those two reports on children’s thinking Kennedy interpolates his own reflections on the topics being discussed, on the methodology he is using, and on the dynamic of the discussions he documents.

Book Publisher

Edwin Mellen Press

Journal ISSN / Book ISBN

978-0-7734-5645-7

Published Citation

Kennedy, David (2006) Changing Conceptions of the Child from the Renaissance to Post-Modernity: A Philosophy of Childhood. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.

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