État: Correct
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Neil Postman | Sociologie | Dell Publishing | Date de parution: 1982 | ISBN-13: 9780440319450 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais
"WITHOUT [ADULT] SECRETS, THERE CAN BE NO SUCH THING AS CHILDHOOD."*
The faces of luscious twelve-year-olds gaze languidly from the covers of "women's" magazines.... Toddlers wear designer clothes.... Alcoholism and drug addiction are common teenage problems.... Violent crime committed by children has risen 11,000 percent since the turn of the century. Have we witnessed childhood's end?
Reaching back in time, Neil Postman explores the development of the concept of childhood from antiquity to the present. Calling us to account, he questions the media barrage of information, the erosion of the barriers of secrecy that once protected the young from a world of adult violence and sexuality, and the myriad ways in which we may be making our own children "an endangered species".
Called "brilliant" by The New York Times, heralded by Dan Rather of CBS News as "an exceptional book... a fearsome warning," The Disappearance of Childhood has been praised by Newsday as "packed with provocative insights.... The author bears the bad news with a formidable grasp of society and culture."
A professor of media ecology at New York University, NEIL POSTMAN is the author of Teaching as a Conserving Activity and Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk. He is also co-author of several best-selling books, including Teaching as a Subversive Activity. In addition to teaching, he lectures on language, education, and media across the country.
*Neil Postman, from The Disappearance of Childhood
