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Thomas J. J. Storme, Giuseppe Ferraro, Walter Omar Kohan, Andrew Komasinski, Karin Fry, Tyson Lewis, Daniel Contage, Stefano Oliverio, Joshua M. Hall, Natalie M. Fletcher, James Stillwaggon, Bernardina Leal, Nancy Vansieleghem, Karin Murris

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Philosophy of Childhood

Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal Centuries of Childhood introduced the master-concept of childhood as a social and cultural invention, thereby weakening the strong grip of biological metaphors on imagining childhood. Today, wh...