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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.23
EAN: 9780679751663
ISBN: 0679751661
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: August 02, 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: August 02, 1994
Sales Rank: 109541
Studio: Vintage
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Beggining with Classical Greece, Postman catlogues the journey and development of childhood. I assumed he would have begun in the Industrial Revolution, which is where msot others might likely have started. However, Postman was never like most others.
An enjoyable, though troubling book to read, my favourite bits come earlier in the book where we find that childhood needs shame in order to be defiend. That shame is of adult things, and therefore, childhood is codefied by shame because ... Read More
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This book predates the popularity of the internet, and is immediately outdated as a result, but closely examines how recent cultural trends (e.g. television) have vastly changed the concept of childhood as known since the time of the printing press. Postman argues forcefully that children are becoming young adults from when they can talk a bit - just because they are able to copy what they watch endlessly on TV.
Neil Postman died in 2003 so will not be writing about what the Internet will ... Read More
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It isn't often anymore that I read something that pops my eyes wide open. Postman is always interesting, always thought provoking, but in this book, he had me outside my own box, looking back in. So seldom am I offered new ideas, new perspectives based on intelligent rersearch and analisys. And what he has to say here is a little chilling. His history of the existance of our idea of childhood was fascinating - but his warning for the immediate future is important and powerful. I might, myself, have ... Read More
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It is simply untrue to write, as Amazon Reviewer Aaron Swartz writes, that Neil Postman praised the Children's Letters "because they agreed with him". Rather, Postman praised them because they showed by their responses that they valued the declining institution of Childhood, and that they were clearly distressed by the possibilities raised in Postman's Book.
Basically, Postman in his book said: "Society no longer values the distinctiveness of Children relative to Adults, and as a result the ... Read More
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This is one of Neil Postman's best books. It is also one of his shortest, and it makes a great introduction to the world of his thinking. Postman had a knack for downloading the difficult ideas of media philosophers like Marshall McLuhan and stating them plainly, directly and with very little artifice. So, for those who have attempted to approach McLuhan, but find his hyperbolic way of speaking off-putting, Postman makes a good introduction. In fact, Postman's books are probably the best introduction for ... Read More
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