The Disappearance of Childhood. Neil Postman

The Disappearance of Childhood


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The Disappearance of Childhood Neil Postman
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group



By the time he reaches his twenties, he's living a directionless life, a failure in love, estranged from his mother. In the “Disappearance of Childhood,” Neil Postman argues that, in fact, the invention of the printed word is what created the concept of “childhood” to begin with. Lewis never recovers from the disappearance of his childhood friend. Neil Postman's “The Disappearance of Childhood”, http://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Childhood-Neil-Postman/dp/0679751661. The Disappearance of Childhood was the second of Postman's major works providing a critical analysis of television's influence on culture. Therefore, with this intention in the back of my mind I picked up Neil Postman's “Disappearance of Childhood”. But it's hard for me to take him seriously after reading his The Disappearance of Childhood, in which he argues (p. "I want my kids to have a childhood. From the author's title and reading the prologue I had a very good either about what the book was about. Tina Reply September 5, 2010 at 4:27 pm. What we are witnessing here is not the disappearance of childhood, but the disappearance of thought. Neil Postman explains why in his book The Disappearance of Childhood (1982). It's been a while since I have read this book, but as I remember, Postman's arguments go something like this: Childhood is a social construct. A secure foundation setting the stage for a secure life. A living, breathing, mud-between-toes, romping-in-woods, staring-at-the-sky childhood.





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