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An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood - A Social History of Family Life (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood - A Social History of Family Life (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French
historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh
interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means
for society at large. Aries's core idea is that 'childhood,' as we
understand it today - a special time that requires special efforts
and resources - is an invention of the 19th century, and that
before that date children were in effect thought of as small
adults. This led him to a re-evaluation of sources that suggested a
second, crucial, conclusion: the idea that these competing visions
of childhood were the products of two very different conceptions of
human society. An earlier, essentially communal, social ideal,
Aries wrote, had been supplanted by a society far more
family-centric and hence inward-facing. In his view, moreover, this
increased focus on childhood posed a direct challenge to a
well-entrenched social order. 'One is tempted to conclude,' he
wrote, 'that sociability and the concept of the family were
incompatible, and could develop only at each other's expense.' This
revolutionary thesis, which has inspired and infuriated other
historians in roughly equal measure, was made possible by Aries's
determination to understand the meaning of the evidence available
to him and highlight problems of definition that others had simply
glossed over, making Centuries of Childhood an important example of
the critical thinking skill of interpretation.
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