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An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood

An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood

Prag, Eva-Marie
Tendler, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1912128810
ISBN13: 9781912128815
Publisher: Macat Lib
Published: Feb 21 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that 'childhood, ' as we understand it today - a special time that requires special efforts and resources - is an invention of the 19th century, and that before that date children were in effect thought of as small adults. This led him to a re-evaluation of sources that suggested a second, crucial, conclusion: the idea that these competing visions of childhood were the products of two very different conceptions of human society.

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