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

Relevant in this context is a wonderful little book by Neil Postman entitled “The Disappearance of Childhood”. By the time he reaches his twenties, he's living a directionless life, a failure in love, estranged from his mother. He ties the invention of childhood in the west over the past few centuries to universal literacy. 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. Original File: Postman,EmergenceofChildhood.rtf. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults. Lewis never recovers from the disappearance of his childhood friend. Size: 212.3 KB THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHILDHOOD Neil Postman Chapter 1. Neil Postman (The Disappearance of Childhood, 1982). The 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. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. What we are witnessing here is not the disappearance of childhood, but the disappearance of thought.