The Crucible of Consent

American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society

James E. Block

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$50.50 • £40.95 • €45.50

ISBN 9780674051942

Publication Date: 02/15/2012

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464 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Preface
Introduction: Is Consent Credible?
- 1. The Hidden Dynamic of Childhood Consent
I. The Dream of Revolutionary Erasure
- 2. The Revolution against Patriarchy and the Crisis of Founding
- 3. Unencumbered Youth and the Postrevolutionary Vacuum of Authority
- 4. Divergent Childhoods, Different Republics: The Initial Turn to Socialization
II. Framing Liberal Child Rearing in the Early Republic
- 5. The Emerging Consensus on Agency Socialization
- 6. Toward a Child-Centered Family
- 7. Winning the Child’s Will
- 8. Socializing Society: Popular Education and the Diffusion of Agency
- 9. Educating the Agent as Liberal Citizen
III. Consolidating the Postwar Agency Republic
- 10. The “Self-Made” Citizen and the Erasure of Socialization
- 11. A Superfluous Socialization? Shaping the Self-Realizing Child
- 12. Educating the Voluntary Citizen in an Organizational Age
Coda: From Deweyan Consensus to the Crisis of Consent
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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