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Monday, 16 November 2015

Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age - Susan Neiman

Great title, but a bit of a disappointment.  Really an overview of philosophers since Rousseau thinking about childhood, becoming an adult and acquiring an education.  A bit of a slow read.  She addresses some of the issues Crawford does in The World Beyond Your Head, but in a more indirect, discursive kind of way, rather than firmly anchored in examples.

You learn a lot about both Rousseau's ideas and Kant's ideas in reading this book.

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