The Disappearance of Childhood

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	The Disappearance of Childhood
	by Neil Postman Sales Rank: 67930	~~List Price: $13.95~~ $11.16 At Amazon on 6-18-2008.

*Features* Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages Published by: Vintage August 2, 1994 Written in: English ISBN 10 Number: 0679751661 ISBN 13 Number: 978-0679751663 Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches Weighs: 7.5 ounces *From Publishers Weekly* The author of Technopoly looks at the embattled nature of childhood in contemporary American culture. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. *Publisher Description* "Postman persuasively mobilizes the insights of psychology, history, semantics, McLuhanology, and common sense on behalf of his amazing and original thesis." --Victor Navasky *Reader Reviews* When browsing for other items I saw by happy accident that this book is still available. It's a pleasure to recommend this brilliant piece of argument - that the postmodern world of hyper-communication has erased the passage of development we have hitherto called childhood and replaced the child with the little adult, with access to all the "secrets" of sexuality, risk and pleasurethat once were revealed in a series of steps over time as the young grew to maturity. Postman's message, that technology has not liberated but infantalized society, puts a frame around modern problems of education, child-raising, and loss of meaning. Whatever you make of this book you will not be neutral. It's a superb polemic, and one of my favourite books. Unreservedly recommended to everyone contemplating the raging "culture wars" with confusion. Comment \| \| (Report this) Back To Top
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